15 years of the best of game-based arts and culture
Games, play, and culture with Jamin Warren
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Are videogames the new museums?
A thread on popular gaming forum NeoGAF is paying homage to the paintings of videogames. Not lowbrow art that portrays Mario and Kronos on canvas, but digital paintings that hang on the walls in games like Assassin’s Creed. While it is debatable whether games belong in museums, the thread shows that
U.S. government agencies want to problem-solve through games.
Various government agencies got together in October to discuss how games can be used to help solve problems within their respective departments. More than 70 federal employees from 23 agencies held a confab at the White House in October to discuss projects they are working on to use games to address
PAUSE: Code or cardboard? How to build an ephemeral L.A.
I thought Team Bondi’s painstaking recreation of 50’s LA was impressive, but Ana Serrano’s has taken the crown. The piece, entitled Salon of Beauty and currently installed at the Rice Gallery in Houston, is a replica city block made entirely out of cardboard. While cardboard provides a practical and
A photorealistic puppet film outclasses BioShock’s CG cutscenes.
The Narrative of Victor Karlock is an upcoming film that uses puppets instead of their CG counterparts. The film is billed as Victorian ghost story, but has a striking resemblance to BioShock, due to the chilling atmosphere and portrayal of a vintage diving suit. Source: The Spirit Cabinet. -Jason J
Is the Kinect 2 powerful enough to read lips?
Remember that scene in 2001 where Dave and Frank discuss disconnecting HAL, but don’t realize that HAL can read lips? Well, we’re one step closer to that dystopian future: Eurogamer reports that a source has disclosed that the Kinect 2 will be sensitive enough to read lips. Kinect 2 will come bundle
Check out a shortlist of the year’s best interactive fiction.
Like a really nerdy cockroach, interactive fiction-those text-only computer games of the pre-graphics era-will live forever. Rock, Paper Shotgun has posted a link to the best short interactive fiction of the year. Taking the main gong this year is Taco Fiction by Ryan Veeder, which is an agreeably w
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