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.
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
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
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
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
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
As E3 approaches next month, we prepare for the slew of sequels sure to be making waves. BioShock Infinite. Borderlands 2. Halo 4. The list goes on. Games have often been critiqued for essentially creating the same material over and over again. Arguably, there’s something slightly different between
In the early 80s, Parker Brothers published a series of books on their arcade properties including our favorite foul-mouthed androgyne Q*Bert. It was one of many spin-offs from that time period that included frisbees, sleeping bags, and so on. [via OTL Gaming]
Our friends over at Pitchfork have directed us to handiework of YouTube user QuintonSung who has lovingly interpreted Kid A and OK Computer into the closing credits for an NES Final Fantasy title. Video Track listing: 0:00 – Airbag 4:36 – Paranoid Android 10:49 – Subterranean Homesick Alien 15:10 –