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Raphaël Moreira Gonçalves Announces First Game Vivid Crash

A 62-second teaser from the Poush studio artist says a beta is coming soon.

A frame from the Vivid Crash announcement reel. Image: Raphaël Moreira Gonçalves

French artist Raphaël Moreira Gonçalves has announced Vivid Crash, a video game released under the artist's own name. The announcement arrived as a post on Instagram, captioned with the title and a two-word timeline: "Beta soon." Watch the teaser below.

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The announcement reel for Vivid Crash, muted here; the original lives on Raphaël Moreira Gonçalves’s Instagram.

No platform, price or release date has been announced. The artist's own site describes the practice as built on video game aesthetics, alien iconography and cryptic scripts.

Moreira Gonçalves, who has Cape Verdean and Italian roots, trained at the Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Le Fresnoy and keeps a studio at the Paris residency Poush. The work spans augmented reality sculpture and CGI worldbuilding, and has shown at Thaddaeus Ropac, CAPC Bordeaux and MUTEK Montréal. Vivid Crash is the first of those projects built to be played.

For more reading, see the artist's website and Cameron Granger's move from art into games.

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