KS founder on NPR’s All Things Considered reviewing Beat Sneak Bandit
Thanks to All Things Considered and NPR producer Justine Kenin for making this happen. Listen!
Jamin Warren
538 postsJamin 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.
A two-player physical/electromechanical dogfight game that involves screaming at one another. Sign me up.
Screw the Kinect voice commands. Screaming is all the rage. Chris O’Reilly at UCLA’s Talk Therapy is absurd: In Talk Therapy, two players compete by screaming at each other. Speed up or slow down your piece, and yell at the exact moment it lines up with your competitor’s. Ok. Sure. Video
Announcing Soundplay, a music and games arcade featuring M83, Cut Copy, Matthew Dear.
Kill Screen, in conjunction with Pitchfork, is proud to announce the launch of Soundplay, an interactive program focused on the intersections of music, gaming, and technology. Kill Screen has commissioned some of our favorite independent game developers to create new, original games inspired by Pitc
Kids should be making things like games and robots, not taking tests.
A couple years ago, I was on a panel for the MacArthur Foundation on the future of games and schools. One of the big questions was how games would be integrating and I found the answer of “systems-based thinking” to be convincing. In large part, this philosophy teaches that creation and collaboratio
Open-source software artist makes brushwork between Draw Something and Velasquez.
Haniya Rae at Guernica looks at the brushwork of an open-source artist named Kynd.Info. I couldn’t help but see Draw Something: Originally, Kynd wanted to mimic Adobe Photoshop brushes so that texture and shading could be emulated. Eventually, he wanted to make “good paintings” with these tools. He
An Apology
On Friday, one of our writers, Michael Thomsen, posted a defense of the new trailer for Hitman: Absolution and a riposte to some of the ensuing dialogue around it. As a community, you responded with disappointment and disgust. While I want Kill Screen to be a place of provocation and debate, this wa
The creator of QWOP and GIRP talks about how we can live forever. We see game design in between the lines.
VIdeo Bennett Foddy, the creator of hyper-difficult “sports” games QWOP and GIRP, also has a second life. He’s a philosopher at Oxford. (Perhaps it’s the other way around and philosophy is hobby?). Anyway, the Atlantic has a lengthy interview with Foddy about the ethics of radical aging treatments t
PAUSE: One man is attempting to draw every word in Draw Something. He’s quite good.
A Tumblr user named Bora has started the Herculean task of drawing nearly everything in the iOS hit Draw Something. He’s basically the mobile phone version of Jason Polan, the guy trying to draw every single person in NYC. Bora’s portfolio is quite impressive as well and boasts quite the wit: “When
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