News
Sophie Rogers Readies Prelude: Three Minutes to Midnight
The artist’s Unreal Engine world, shown as an installation at Palmer Gallery this summer, is close to a playable prototype release.
climate change
Peter Nichols
Peter Nichols Built a Colony Sim for the Last Honey Bees
Made in two weeks for thatgamecompany's jam, Buzzkeeper runs thousands of simulated insects through NASA climate projections for the end of the century.
News
Liam Young's Planet City Joins SFMOMA's Permanent Collection
The 2020 film, commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, imagines all 10 billion people living in a single city.
News
Strangers decode the headlines in a Kingston churchyard
Marina Zurkow and Abigail Simon's The Iceberg deals a surreal card deck until the news reads like a system
Playlist
Not With a Scream, But With a Bloop: What to Play, October 2
It just might be wearing a funny hat.
News
Laser Days Screens Acid City at 19 Festivals in 12 Countries
Jack Wedge and Will Freudenheim built the 12-minute documentary from real New York interviews and game-engine animation.
Wendi Yan
Wendi Yan built a puzzle game out of Daoist inner alchemy
You move through a science-fiction landscape as a bundle of qi, aligning your own breath with the planet's carbon cycle. Meditation as mechanic, scripture as technology.
climate change
What is the Environmental Weight of a Rendered Frame?
Kara Stone and Joshua Dawson are making work about a world in crisis. They're also reckoning with what it means to build inside the systems driving it.
game design
Rui Hu: The infinite futures of games
Artist Rui Hu blends game engines, installation art, and memory to examine how virtual spaces infiltrate our physical world.
indigenous design
Playing with Purpose: Elizabeth LaPensée's Cultural Game Design
Elizabeth LaPensée integrates Indigenous knowledge into game design, creating experiences that honor traditional ways of knowing while addressing contemporary issues.
digital art
Keiken: Towards new collective belief through CGI cinema
Art collective Keiken creates speculative futures in Unreal Engine, examining digital identity and climate change through magical realist CGI narratives and virtual performances.
nature
Paloma Dawkins sees the natural world through games
Montreal-based artist Paloma Dawkins creates surreal games that reconnect players with nature, challenging our alienation from the natural world through digital spaces.