Rami Ismail: Advocating for games globally
Game developer Rami Ismail champions accessibility and diversity in the global gaming industry, creating platforms for cross-cultural knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Jamin Warren
Jamin Warren founded Killscreen. He produced the first VR arts festival with the New Museum, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival, the first arcade at the Museum of Modern Art, won a Telly, and hosted Game/Show for PBS.
Jakob Tuchten: Leading a punk game studio
Art Director Jakob Tuchten discusses Might and Delight's unique approach to hand-drawn animation and game design in their "Tiny Multiplayer Online RPG" Book of Travels.
Meara O'Reilly: The perception, memory, and illusion of sound
Sound artist Meara O'Reilly investigates auditory perception through experimental music, creating works that challenge how we experience and understand sound.
Joo Won Park: To listen is to interact
Composer Joo Won Park transforms ordinary objects into extraordinary instruments, challenging listeners to discover the hidden musicality in their everyday surroundings.
Cassie McQuater: The textures and tensions of game design
Artist Cassie McQuater transforms video game sprites and digital landscapes into hypnotic browser-based experiences, examining insomnia through interactive digital collage.
Samantha Gorman brings the present moment into VR
Samantha Gorman and Tender Claws blend VR with live theater, creating innovative experiences that challenge our understanding of presence and virtual performance.
Paloma Dawkins sees the natural world through games
Montreal-based artist Paloma Dawkins creates surreal games that reconnect players with nature, challenging our alienation from the natural world through digital spaces.
Pulling the threads of authenticity with Eugene Chung
Eugene Chung shares experiences and insights in virtual reality storytelling, focusing on his work at Penrose Studios and the challenges of creating immersive narratives in VR.
A Monument to Experience
Lea Schönfelder, game designer for Monument Valley 2, discusses her transition from independent projects to ustwo games and shares insights on creating elegant, accessible mobile experiences that prioritize 'wow' moments over traditional gaming challenges.
Constraints Kickstart Creation
"Everything that's interesting has a strong emotional core," says game designer Davey Wreden, creator of The Stanley Parable and The Beginner's Guide.
A Game Is A Living Thing
MoMA's Senior Curator Paola Antonelli discusses the museum's inclusion of video games in its permanent collection, exploring their significance as design objects that shape behavior and interaction, while reflecting on the challenges of preserving digital art in a museum context.
MoMA's Paola Antonelli on thinking of games as design objects
MoMA curator Paola Antonelli discusses the museum's groundbreaking inclusion of video games in their permanent collection, marking a shift in how institutions view digital design.
Playdead teases new title with mysterious image
Earlier today, the Twitter account of Playdead, creator of Kill Screen’s #1 game of 2016, emerged from its slumber to drop something special on this day of days. Thanks for your warm reception of INSIDE. Since release, Playdead founder Arnt Jensen and the team have been working on the next adventure
Touching Obama’s hair and my hope for the future of games
Revisiting what Obama’s reelection calls for us to do.
You shouldn’t be surprised that the Japanese PM dressed up as Mario
So at this point you likely saw what happened during the Olympics closing event. Yeah, I know. At first glance, it seems like an unnecessary commercial incursion in an already saturated Olympic event. Nintendo, a $42 billion-dollar videogame company, needs no additional exposure, especially of the h
The birth of No Man’s Sky
If you want more in depth interviews like these, support us on Kickstarter! // Few games have captured the public imagination like No Man’s Sky. Due out in June 2016, the game promises an entire universe to explore: some 18 quintillion planets, which would take some 600 billion hours for players to
A Two5six conversation about surveillance, in games and out of it
The game designer as hacker
A Two5six conversation with Forza’s Dan Greenawalt and BMW designer Chris Bangle
The future of car culture, in a world where kids don’t even want driver’s licenses.
A Two5six conversation about cities, skylines, and Cities: Skylines
We sit down with Colossal Order’s game designer and an urban design thinker to chat about the spaces in which we live.
Rod Humble talks Sims, A.I., and his new work at ToyTalk
The Second Life founder wants to create games we can truly talk to.
Below’s creative director on procedural generation, making soup, and spelunking
“Delicate and small and precious but also complex and deep and crazy and brutal and dark and awful.”
How No Man’s Sky paints 18 quintillion worlds with an algorithmic brush
“Funnel them into a box of ‘maths’.”
Will virtual reality give you FOMO?
You probably weren’t invited anyway.
Celebrate the life of Martin Luther King with us today
What dreams may come.
Introducing Kill Screen’s Year in Ideas
A week-long series celebrating the strange, wonderful year we’ve had.