Game Art: William Huber and Lev Manovich "Kingdom Hearts Visualizations" ( 2009-2010))

"This project represents nearly 100 hours of playing two videogames as high resolution visualizations. This representation allows us to study the interplay of various elements of gameplay, and the relationship between the travel through game spaces and the passage of time in game play. [...] The data are the game play sessions of the video games Kingdom Hearts (2002, Square Co., Ltd.) and Kingdom Hearts II (2005, Square-Enix, Inc.) Each game was played from the beginning to the end over a number of sessions. The video captured from all game sessions of each game were assembled into a singe sequence. The sequences were sampled at 6 frames per second. This resulted in 225,000 frames for Kingdom Hearts and 133,000 frames for Kingdom Hearts II. The visualizations use only every 10th frame from the complete frame sets:Kingdom Hearts: 22,500 frames. Kingdom Hearts II: 13,300 frames." (William Huber)

Link: William Huber and Lev Manovich's Game Visualizations

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