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.
Game designer and KS contributor Pippin Barr continues his war on orthodoxy with his newest title Pongs. Inspired by his experience playing Painstation (which he documented for us), Barr went on to create a variety of new permutations of Pong including Edutainment Pong (“What is the capital of Mauri
Artist Benjamin Grosser’s project “Variable Mirror” explores our relation to one of the most fundamental units of digital reality: the pixel. He explains: The pixel is the fundamental unit of digital imaging, a square representation of a single color. Pixels are always the same size, and always arra
Video I’m normally loathe to post new Minecraft projects (“Hey, we built Ford’s Theatre….in Minecraft!) but sometimes a project comes along that makes you rethink that policy. Behold the Magic Kingdom in block form. No work if you have to park in an adjacent town and walk over. TheRealDuckie explai
While developers Shock Panda totally jacked Zach Gage’s UI from SpellTower, their Letterbox is a novel permutation on the word game. You’re handed a 10×10 cube that you must deconstruct through THE POWER OF WORDS. But seriously, stringing together letters removes blocks which then makes the interior
Caine built an elaborate cardboard arcade to build awareness for his scholarship fun. ADORABLE. This better not be an ad. VIDEO [via Kottke]
Sci-Fi-O-Rama has an long and detailed look at the vector art of games from the late 80s to early 90s. That particular art-style seems both dated and futuristic and with all the talk about the “New Aesthetic,” it’s a thrilling nod to the creative, generative power of machines to both document what w
For decades, the brooding creativity of poets and writers has run hand in hand with mania and depression. As David Dobbs points out in a reading of Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine, prominient British novelists and poets faced psychological illness: Nearly 40 percent of the successful creative people [researc
Video At PAX East this weekend, I ran into Alex Schwartz, chief scientist (?) at Owlchemy Labs, who showed me a demo of their upcoming mobile title Jack Lumber. Why are lumberjacks so mad? Because the trees killed the ones they love and it’s up to you to take action. Somewhere between the pacing of