Kill Screen Staff - Killscreen (Page 22)

A projected CGI scene shows a figure with a blue-patterned porcelain head, seen from behind, inside an iron and glass structure.

arebyte

arebyte Shows Wendi Yan and Skawennati in SLIPSTREAM

The seven-artist London exhibition traces the term slipstream to Native science fiction.

A rocket car mid-flight in Cabbibo’s Moon Ball

Rocket League

When a car throws a hook mid-air, driving becomes flight

Cabbibo’s Moon Ball grafts the Lashing magic from Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight novels onto a Rocket League chassis.

A low-poly farm plot where rows of pale humanoid crops grow from dark soil in CORPSE FARM

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The crop is flesh in Berrysoft’s CORPSE FARM

A farming sim wears the cozy genre’s exact visual manners, only it's skin

Visitors sit on tree stumps watching a large screen in the dimly lit Undershed gallery, with grass and branches on the floor

SENTIENTS

At Watershed, six teenagers curated the games on show

SENTIENTS just closed at Undershed, with work by Marshmallow Laser Feast, David OReilly, Alice Bucknell, Alan Kwan and Demelza Kooij.

art bit

In Kyoto, an art hotel treated games as social diagrams

art bit #6: Game Playing Society put HUMANITY, SCHiM and Coffee Talk beside Courtinat and Kihara

Grid of small animated noise patterns with hand-drawn labels in a pixel-styled gallery interface

Tools

Before making a game, Lotritsa Studio shipped the tool

Kaleidos makes Perlin noise, cellular noise and reaction-diffusion playable

Circular copper bench and table with embedded screens under a copper column in a curtained gallery

Venice Biennale

Exactly two playable games made it into the Venice Biennale

Elliott Burns went hunting across every national presentation and came back with KAZANA, Bulgaria's copper-clad political compass quiz.

Magazine

Reset issue 1 boasts Liam Wong’s game-trained eye

Kepler Interactive’s sold-out print debut files photography, fashion and architecture under the same cultural roof as play.

Jon Rafman

Jon Rafman's Main Stream Media closes at K21 on Sept. 27

Ten days to catch the survey of the artist who filed the internet's dream

Gravity Goblins

Walls become floors on command in Gravity Goblins

The Rat Zone's fourth bite-size game is hoards trinkets, blows it all at the arcade.

Car Park Capital

Car Park Capital turns car dependency into a tycoon sim

Hilko Janssen hands you Big Auto's propaganda budget

The Electronic Program Guide screen from Blippo+, listing alien television shows in saturated colour.

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YACHT is pressing its alien TV hits to double vinyl

Greatest Hits from Planet Blip collects music from Blippo+, the off-cable television simulator Panic published last year. The label dates it 16 October.