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"The Blank Arcade Understanding design as research, the DIGRA 2014 committee invites submissions of games that fill in the blanks. Games should ostensibly fill in the blanks of design or ludic experience, offering new game play experiences, highlighting spaces that are relatively uninhabited by other playful experiences or that
3D ANIMATION
Victor Morales' upcoming show at the Dixon Place in New York City on February 17, 2014 is titled "Electric Boogaloo Blues - the decay comes before the blues***". Morales describes it as "rough puppeteering using gamepad and ipad mashed with sound reactive shaders". Unmissable. LINK
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"A MAZE. / Berlin is an international platform for independent games that invites professionals and creatives from various fields to exchange their knowledge and visions, presenting their projects, playing, making contacts to collaborate on future projects. You can expect two days of inspiration, skill, celebration and play. " (A MAZE.
Vector Game Art
GameScenes is talking to artists, critics, curators, and gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art, as part of an ongoing investigation of the social history of this artworld. Our goal is to document and discuss both the origins and evolution of a phenomenon that changed the way game-based
ART GAME
Ian McLarty invites us to discover "our inner Pollock" with the newly released Action Painting Pro for Windows and Macintosh computers. Is it a game? Is it a tool? Is it a bird? No, it's "creative software". LINK : Ian MacLarty Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ESSAY
In case you did not know, Douglas Coupland invented Minecraft, or so he tells edgy Italian contemporary art magazine Mousse (issue 42, February–March 2014): LINK : Douglas Coupland Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
ART GAME
PolyFauna is an experimental game developed by Radiohead and Universal Everything, inspired by the band's latest album, The King of Limbs, which uses the imagery and the sounds from the song Bloom. Available for iOS and Android, PolyFauna "comes from an interest in early computer life-experiments and
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GameScenes recommends: Norman Chan (Tested) wrote an in-depth profile (cum interview) of Jeremy Williams, creator of the Game Frame, a pixel art construction kit/display tool. On January 20, 2014, Philippa Warr (WIRED UK) wrote about The Museum of Simulation Technology, a video game dealing with forced perspective developed by
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The mighty IndieGames blog has recently announced that the Game Developers Conference 2014 organizers have selected fourteen teams for the debut of ALT.CTRL.GDC, "an on-site exhibit of alternative control schemes and interactions, including the Oculus Rift and AKAI LPD8 paired Please Don't, Spacedog!, caterpillar sim
GAME ART
Bashir Sultani's Minecraft Steve, 2014LINK : Bashir Sultani Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
PIXEL ART
Artist, critic, and curator Jon Gurley argues that the "Art" featured in videogames is a form of art. We could not agree more. In fact, we loove his new tumblr, Video Game Art, which reminds us of the similarly edgy initiatives "Paintings in Porn" or "
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Alex Myers, WINNING, digital game, 2008 Alex Myers' latest project, WINNING, visually examines the inner logic of the FPS by compressing both temporal and spatial coordinates. Originally developed in 2008, the project has been updated for its upcoming showing at Vector Game + Art Conference in Toronto, Canada. Located in