Jamin Warren
605 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.
The next Harmonix game involve this two-player pump organ.
Video Tauba Auerbach and Cameron Mesirow (aka Glasser) created this beast of a pump organ with the intent that no one should play music alone. We think it should feature prominent in a future Rock Band: The instrument cannot be played alone. Each player has a keyboard with alternating notes of a fou
Kurt Vonnegut’s letter to book burners of Slaughterhouse-Five has much to teach game censors.
In 1973, after a teacher at Drake High School in North Dakota introduced Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, an over-zealous school board head demanded that all the copies be burned to protest the novel’s “obscene language.” Vonnegut intervened via a letter as pointed out by Jason Kottke. The entir
"Have you ever played a racing game and wanted to play as the road…?" Now you can.
As part of this past weekend’s Molyjam, a 48-hour game creation competition based on the absurd tweets of Peter Molyneux parody account @Molydeux, Ben Pitt created a hilarious answer to the titular question. YOU ARE THE ROAD. [via Waxy]
A 3D Kinect-enabled sound sculpture turns a dancer’s motion into sand.
Video Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer produced this amazing sound sculpture to visualize a dancer’s movements with the use of a Kinect: The basic idea of the project is built upon the consideration of creating a moving sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person. For our work we asked a d
Are games missing their "middle class"?
Is core gaming on the ropes? Jeff Grubb at VentureBeat thinks so in a long essay on the decline of traditional gaming categories. He points the ups and downs of THQ’s uDraw package, a Wacom-like drawing tablet for the Wii. After initial success, THQ doubled down to try and port the tablet to the Xbo
Do videogames even need stories? Do we need stories at all?
Spurred to action by The Corrections author Jonathan Franzen, Tim Clark takes a stab in the New York Review of Books at unravelling the idea that we need stories as Franzen maintains. Clark shoots for the self and argues that stories bring out a greater understanding of our own identities by locatin
Want to hang with Kill Screen at PAX EAST this weekend? Yeah, you do.
So PAX East is this weekend in Boston. We’ll be there selling mags, tees, and other goodies. Come say hello! We’ll be at the Kickstarter Pavillion.
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