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

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)

Those look very fun to make! They also look awesome.

Games= art, apparently http://www.techspot.com/news/43696-the-us-legally-recognizes-video-games-as-an-art-form.html?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4dc8487e9cc70318%2C0

http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2011/06/the-aesthetics-of-video-games.html#more

scroll down. video game art exhibit

http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2012/11/29/video-games-14-in-the-collection-for-starters/

what is...art

Marble Madness is art

Over the next few years, we would like to complete this initial selection with Spacewar! (1962), an assortment of games for the Magnavox Odyssey console (1972), Pong (1972), Snake (originally designed in the 1970s; Nokia phone version dates from 1997), Space Invaders (1978), Asteroids (1979), Zork (1979), Tempest (1981), Donkey Kong (1981), Yars’ Revenge (1982), M.U.L.E. (1983), Core War (1984), Marble Madness (1984), Super Mario Bros. (1985), The Legend of Zelda (1986), NetHack (1987), Street Fighter II (1991), Chrono Trigger (1995), Super Mario 64 (1996), Grim Fandango (1998), Animal Crossing (2001), and Minecraft (2011).

way to reach for the stars there

or you know, i could just let them come over to my house and borrow some stuff

For one weird, horrible moment there I thought Yars' Revenge read Custer's Revenge.

okay that would be amazing

hahaha oh god that would be an amazing choice

xposts!

the world's most unsurprising xpost

was coming to post that link in lolz thread

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/nov/30/moma-video-games-art

I haven't read this yet but I suspect dude's picture is going to tell me everything I need to know about the article:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/2/26/1235669002764/Badge-Jonathan-Jones-on-A-001.jpg

JONATHANJONES
SHART
BLOG

I read about three sentences of dude's column before the urge to punch my computer became overwhelming and I had to stop

good choice w/ dwarf fortress!

The worlds created by electronic games are more like playgrounds where experience is created by the interaction between a player and a programme.

nabokov to thread

ya seems like a sound enough defn of art to me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD_(video_game)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnNgv1qDLGM

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