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# Box art or art boxed? GA Tech professor’s $500 bespoke "game poems"
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/box-art-or-art-boxed-ga-tech-professors-500-bespoke-game/
- Published: 2011-06-24T17:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:53:03.000Z
- Description: GA Tech professor Ian Bogost produced a series of “game poems” called A Slow Year as a set of 1K games for the Atari. But now he’s create a super luxe boxed version of the games for sale for $500 a piece. This strategy for boxed games is an interesting tack. Obviously, A Slow Year is not worth that
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

![](http://killscreendaily.com/includes/img/focus-areas/a_slow_year_deluxe.jpg)

GA Tech professor Ian Bogost produced a series of “game poems” called *A Slow Year* as a set of 1K games for the Atari. But now he’s create a super luxe boxed version of the games for sale for [$500 a piece](http://www.bogost.com/blog/a%5Fslow%5Fyear%5Flimited%5Fedition.shtml?ref=killscreen.com).

This strategy for boxed games is an interesting tack. Obviously, *A Slow Year* is not worth that much ([you can get it for $20](http://www.opentexture.com/products/aslowyear/?ref=killscreen.com)), but creating a luxury product with thoughtful design and packaging imbues the experience with new life. It’s a good model — look at Radiohead’s recent packaging efforts.

The future of games at retail may be a question mark (as all physical forms of media are), but bespoke projects like this one will always have value.