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.
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Video While the Portal gun is still at least three Apple press conferences away, two MIT physicists are bringing us the next best thing: seeing around corners with lasers. Ramesh Raskar and Andreas Velten are the researchers with the breakthrough as LiveScience explains: They fired a laser through t
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Video I will certainly be watching the beginning of season 5 of AMC’s period piece Mad Men on Sunday. But in the interim, a Choose Your Own Adventure game from the Fine Brothers should tide you over. And much like the original CYOA games, apocalypse looms around ever corner. My fate involved incitin
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Simon Flesser of Simogo, the design, music, and creative end of the duo behind a KS favorite Beat Sneak Bandit, shared some of the early sketches of the game. BSB relies exclusively on moving the Bandit on 4/4 rhythms throughout the level and the dribblings give some inspiration behind its Saul Bass
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Those hours spent along building games or playing them in your basement? They may not be so bad. Videogames have always received a bad wrap for being antisocial, but in a new essay echoing Jonathan Rauch’s famous 2003 defense of introverts from the Atlantic, Vanessa Quirk argues that being and buil
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It’s that time of year again! Occupy Wall Street is back and over 300 protestors were ousted from an attempt to take Union Square Park. As a refresher, OWS was the loose, decentralized organization that claimed Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan for several months, sparking protests around the world.
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If the skills we learn in games don’t matter, why are they so unforgiving? NYU professor Jesper Juul and Jamin Warren talk about why we can’t hide from failure in games.
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In what I am convinced is an ode to The Sun Also Rises,Surprise Bullfight features both surprises and bullfighting. Unsurprisingly, the game comes from the twisted and bizarre talent Mark Essen and adds another strange feather to the hat of the Adult Swim games network.
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Paul Hughes has been making Dungeons and Dragons art at his blog for years so he wanted to generate a way for others to do so easily as well. The following project ensued: This intricately illustrated 36″ by 24″ playable dungeon map poster encapsulates the Dungeon Master’s Guide’s complete rules for
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Passage is a game about love, loss, life, and separation. Canabalt is about a man trying to get away. So naturally Sergio Cornaga thought the two should be blended to make Passagebalt. File this one under game as punchline. I made it to age 66 before dying alone. You basically run, age, and die. I’m
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KS contributor and British cartoonist Louis Roskosch has a new graphic novel out entitled Leeroy and Popo. Leeroy is an an unemployed bear and spends his days smoking weed with dino pal Popo. (You had me at unemployed bear): In Leeroy and Popo, we join the dilatory duo as they overcome obstacles as
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Video Russian art collective Pprofessors have taken to the streets of Moscow with dozens of giant red pixel people engaging in various activities like flying planes and, um, just sitting. Reminds me a bit of the work of Mark Jenkins, only more ominous. You can see more of their work on their LiveJou
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At SXSWi last week, a comment from Ben Terret, head of design for the UK Government Digital Service, had particularly resonance for us gameplaying folks. The panel was titled “The New Aesthetic: Seeing Like Digital Devices” and walked through the myriad of ways that our understanding of modern reali