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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
One of our new favorite Kickstarters is for the audaciously delicious Velociraptor! Cannibalism! some Philadelphia-based board game makers: Velociraptor! Cannibalism! is a card game of survival, mutation, and the occasional volcano. Based on a crude understanding of natural selection,Velocipator! Ca
Over at Buzzfeed, John Herman notes that the introduction of new retina displays for the iPad is giving mobile app designers pause about a previously overlooked design element: fonts. He points to the app Readability’s licensing of fonts from Hoefler & Frere-Jones, one of the most establish foundrie