Video Games and Art (Video Games AS Art) (and so on)

http://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/05/jason-huangs-lovepixel/

has anyone else been keeping an eye on the upcoming jeff minter game, space giraffe for the xbox360?

new screenshots up on yakyak

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=65244

(warning, large images)

see also, his visualiser that is bundled with all xbox360s.

he's been writing about it in an edge column for a few months now. I am pretty excited by it.

holy shit, new yak game? amazing!

Also, where the hell is SPORE already?

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1082/708958045_8981045405.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1166/709080033_60a8345bf8.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1203/708734823_54d6c8324e.jpg

what is this

GTA:LCS I believe. I like them Ste, I like the last one most of all.

Yes it's me going crazy with a camera on GTA messing around with shutter speeds and the photoshop perspective tool With all this rain at the moment I can't take pictures of anything else!

Yeah I blurred the cranes and bridge in that last one, which I think works to some rainy effect level.

one more

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1347/708875089_5012a91efc.jpg

I like the effect but I think that if you're softening the rider you need to soften all the sharp edges especially on the wheels. Does that makes sense?

i would be really happy if you could do this for Ico

do you mean the riders head? it was accidentally softened because of where the blur mask was set down the screen, i guess i should have art-history'd his head back in focus.

I meant his knees as well, the wheels aren't as rounded...

yeah i don't know what happened at the knees, i think the contrast between the white bike and the black outfit blew out when I curved it to death.

I... don't know what that means...

its a tool in photoshop, the curve tool. i use it to enhance contrast and colour. which i used to the max on this one.

Ah. Cheers. More plz.

I like the last one best, it looks like those faux-model train miniatures shots that were all the rage on ILE for a few days way back when

Oh the larks as people tried to recreate them. Good attempts though and definitely one or two successes! Can't find thread though, sorry. Had something to do with model railways in the title.

It looks like a miniature trainset but really, oh that one really is: Olivo Barbieri and fake tilt-shifting photos

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1158/672349917_cd085ef7f1_b.jpg

Tracer, a star is you.

Ste, loving those! May we use them as wallpaper?

yeah course, do what you want with them.

and thanks

loving the graphics on this up and coming release

http://www.machinarium.com/

that's just concept art, right?

No, it's a 2D adventure game, that is the actual art. I remember the flash games that guy made, pretty cool looking stuff.

looks and sounds good! very lucasartsy.

i just checked out the flash game, very nice indeed

http://amanita-design.net/samorost-2/

some interesting picks.
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/games/winninggames.pdf

hmm... "interesting" indeed

messed up

okay i saw these done on the internet recently, lego incarnations of video game characters (alright its hardly original). but i thought i'd try one myself.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zMQG1qIiAaI/Tcr42eYVPKI/AAAAAAAAAEw/yKJPV69syyA/s1600/samcruiselego.jpg

Nice!

thanks, i pretty much ran out of black bricks after this. but i want to do another one instead and keep it on my shelf. perhaps one with more colour

also the aspect ratio of the brick sizes means they look a little stretched horizontally. this would lend itself well to atari type ones, or bbc mode 2 graphics!

Modes 2 and 5 had pixels that were twice as wide as they were tall. Modes 1 and 4 had square pixels. The aspect ratio for Lego bricks is something like 1 unit high, two thirds of a unit wide?
http://www.lugnet.com/~330/FAQ/Build/dimensions

oh i'm using 2 brick slots horizontally to 1 vertically, because i have more thick bricks than thin.

so yeah, if i just used single bricks it would be then stretched upwards. i tried this actually with a galaxian sprite and it looked stupid.

some interesting picks.
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/games/winninggames.pdf

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hmm... "interesting" indeed

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messed up

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metroid prime 2... smh...

okay i'm happy with this one, i didn't have any pink lego tho

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_I3eKqGiWLz8/TcxM_D4ykRI/AAAAAAAAAFM/wyYc8P-srR0/s512/2011-05-12%2022.04.25.jpg

Way of the AS-PLODING FIST!!!

that looks A+!
instructions, please

Good work, sir!

(eyes .jpg, looks at bag of lego on the floor, strokes chin)

I think craft can become an art when practiced at the highest level, but mechanics to me are the province of craft -- constrained and motivated by environment rather than internal expression.

the one facet of this where i can kind of see s1ocki's point is that i think games can be more than art, which i guess is a way of saying 'different than art', in that games can be sports, games can be trivia, games can be simulations, games can be war (drones/enders game lol) etc... but i don't see anything that categorically excludes games from being art either! i do see something though that excludes sports or war from being art, the absence of creation.

Rumsfeld as architect of war

lol i don't think slocki is flailing nor is he being disingenuous

the fact that in a sport any action taken on the field is always and primarily for the purposes of winning and not aesthetics seems insurmountable to me

yeah I don't think that's a particularly controversial position either

i think that distinction is enough to render games different from art (if not "not art", idk?)

but again "pure" games are on a different plane from the competitive games of sports, going back to my crap up there about mazes and experience. or thinking about non-video games like, idk, those annoying old-timey catch-the-ball-on-a-string-in-the-cup. meaningless time wasting, a challenge w/o purpose, meant just to be fun to keep your hands and eyes occupied

any action taken on the field is always and primarily for the purposes of winning and not aesthetics seems insurmountable to me

well yes, everyone knows that Tebow is art

I mean:

http://www.imagecpr.com/imagecpr.com%20uploads/2012/09/TEBOW-HELMET.gif

was just trying to find that gif!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z326cvKjdUA/T6MKSgOiadI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/-4F1DR8j3yY/s1600/brushing+the+dirt.jpg

let's set aside what you think i meant by "on the field"

but really, don't, because, do you think tebow is praying because it looks good? or is he praying to win.

well strictly speaking he is giving thanks to his Lord and Savior for making a spectacular garbage play successful

Does Jordan sticking his tongue out provide extra lift for his layup and dunks?

I think winning as a motivator is much less of a barrier than money as a motivator in terms of negating aesthetic agency.

Like in that time punch art piece, if that artist was actually working a job where he was paid to punch a clock, that would have destroyed the thing. He'd just be working a job at that point.

http://thecitizenkaneofvideogames.tumblr.com/

hahaha

http://images.crispygamer.com/public/column-2288/kanethegame.jpg

http://bubsy3d.com/

flippin over how great this is

Yeah this is pretty wonderful. On a side note, isn't the 3D Bubsy supposed to be one of the worst games of all time?

that was awesome

http://0.media.dorkly.cvcdn.com/81/77/43361f45c29abdf0a2e713872c3237ec-creative-xbox-live-private-messages.jpg

probably a better place to put that than here but eh

I don't believe that's a real XBL message, since it doesn't contain racial slurs or homophobic insults.

Zone Recreation

http://hyperallergic.com/195863/a-video-game-lets-you-navigate-giorgio-de-chiricos-surreal-cityscapes/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xHqjSterB4

https://www.behance.net/gallery/63535513/300-Super-Nintendo-Logos-Fully-Remastered

holy cow woulda look at that

Making vector replicas of display type used to be my crack. I developed an entire typeface based on the Tron logo back in the day.

that's awesome

(Should mention I created the Tron font exclusively for use on a flyer for a college radio show that like four people listened to. It was a good use of my time.)

I'm preordering this thing: https://www.amazon.com/Game-Console-History-Photographs/dp/1593277431

Also highly recommend the Art of Atari book that came out a year or so ago.

oh hey another design student figured out the Adobe Illustrator Trace function

Now, now. Perhaps it's come a long way in recent versions but my recollection is that 'trace' isn't really all that. It involves some work to overcome Adobe's apparent insistence that a copy of a straight line should have 52 anchor points.

yeah its a little more complicated than that. im just being snarky (the Batman Return one in partic looks like he just hit trace and export). still, foregoing all that you could turn on the pen tool and trace one of these logos by hand in like 5 mins.

i like this

https://en.softonic.com/articles/gta-5-gun-violence-in-america

recent V&A videogames exhibition:

https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/videogames

specifically this magritte:

https://vanda-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/2018/04/06/08/26/58/28b0a0aa-5329-4a00-8e26-c12d6ddaef5f/960.jpg

vs this (kentucky route zero)

https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/04/06/09/va-videogames-kentucky-route-z-0.jpg?width=1368&height=912&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=70