The Graveyard, an explorable painting in game form

As an experiment in realtime poetry, The Graveyard can’t necessarily be classified as a game, but most certainly a work of art. In the game, you are an older lady, visiting a graveyard, who’s grave though is up to you to find out. You can explore the graveyard or even sit on a bench and experience the environment, creating an immersive, if not slightly depressing, tone for realtime visual exploration.

Experience The Graveyard: The Graveyard


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April 11th in Art, Indie, The Graveyard | Email this | 1 comment
Long exposure photos of video gaming classics


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Artist Rosemaria Fiore created a brilliant photo project, documenting her playing retro video games like Tempest, Gyuss and Quantum from Atari, Centuri and Taito. The photos are long exposure snaps, consisting of 1 second of gameplay per frame, resulting in excellent and complex patterns which normal players would never normally see. When I saw these photos for the first time, I instantly though “Geometry Wars”. My bad.

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February 8th in Art, Games, Photos, Retro | Email this | Comment
History of video games exhibition announced at London Science Museum


Game art from Oblivion

The London Museum of Science has announced an upcoming exhibition covering the history of video games over the past 50 years of computer gaming. The exhibition will feature over 120 games on display and traditional artwork from some of gaming’s elite, including drawings from Shigeru Mitamoto and a playable version of Space War, considered to be the first computer game ever on the PGP-1 computer. The “Game On” exhibition will open October 21st, 2006 and run until February 25th, 2007 at London’s Museum of Science.

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September 18th in Art, Events, Games | Email this | Comment