Jamin Warren - Killscreen (Page 3)

An abstract swirl of red, violet and black

Playlist

Walk, Sit, Listen: What to Play, October 9

Guess I’ll take a seat.

Keiken

Inside Keiken’s giant mask, you wait to be reborn

The Divine Puppeteer at BALTIC is a walk-in character-select screen: a deity flicking through a catalogue of possible next bodies. Entry is free.

Podcast

Brass, Flesh and a Genius Grant [Podcast]

Danny Snelson and I follow Murlo's solo game, a cartridge milled for a grandmother and a MacArthur that names a game, to ask who gets to be the genius.

Podcast

The Buttons Are Under Your Skin [Podcast]

I ask Murlo how a decade of reading dance floors led him to build a Luddite point-and-click game alone, with a sequencer hidden under the player's skin.

Six stills: two from Weapons, one from Resident Evil, and one each from Dead Space, Until Dawn and Still Wakes the Deep

Event

Scoring Fear: The Composers Behind Weapons and Dead Space

Cross-Conversations: Horror. Weapons and Resident Evil composer Ryan Holladay meets Dead Space composer Jason Graves on scoring fear for a screen versus for a player. Free and online.

Playlist

Not With a Scream, But With a Bloop: What to Play, October 2

It just might be wearing a funny hat.

A rendered scene from Acid City showing a floating megacity on an acidified ocean

News

Laser Days Screens Acid City at 19 Festivals in 12 Countries

Jack Wedge and Will Freudenheim built the 12-minute documentary from real New York interviews and game-engine animation.

Murlo

Murlo Builds a World You Can Play

Chris Pell spent a decade reading dance floors. Now he is building a Luddite point-and-click alone, for one player at a time, with an album hidden inside it.