Infovore : tag : experimental

08
August
2009

Links

Tagged as:
elephant, experimental, flash, games, onelevel.

This Is The Only Level | Armor Games

Yes it is. Jolly good, and the music will drive you crackers.

(tags: games flash experimental onelevel elephant )

03
December
2008

Links

Tagged as:
amazing, art, books, bubblewrap, calendar, covers, criticism, design, development, dissonance, experimental, flash, funny, games, google, graphicdesign, grid, illustration, jackets, layout, mechanics, michaelabbott, narrative, parody, pastiche, poem, reference, resource, review, satire, software, stevegaynor, story, systems, watchmen, web, webcomics, yahoo.

i made this. you play this. we are enemies.

Um. An "artwork/game/digital poem/world of scribbles" from Jason Nelson. Stop trying to "get it".

(tags: satire google yahoo web flash games art poem experimental )
The Book Design Review

"My Favorite Book Covers of 2008" Some I'd seen before; some I'd not. Some very beautiful things here.

(tags: illustration books jackets covers design graphicdesign )
Games are Software « Save the Robot – Chris Dahlen

"I come from a software background, as well as an artsy-fartsy one. I want to see games as art, but they’re also supposed to work as logically-constructed bodies of code. And in a lot of cases, reviewers need to see them as software rather than as art. Here’s why…" I think Steve has some good points here, but I'm not totally swung yet; after all, games might _be_ software, but do we _experience_ them as software? I'm not sure that we do, and that's why we respond to them in the manner we do.

(tags: games software criticism review development stevegaynor )
The Grid System

"The ultimate resource in grid systems."

(tags: resource grid design layout web reference )
scans_daily: Watchmen: The condensed version

Pretty much spot on. Especially when it comes to GRIMDARK PIRATE COMICS.

(tags: watchmen webcomics parody pastiche funny )
The Brainy Gamer: Dissonance

"Does the road to ludonarrative unity really lead us where we want to go? Is the destination reachable? Is it possible to embrace a design aesthetic that takes us in another direction that could be just as fruitful, if not more so? Okay that was three questions, but it's my blog so I get to ask as many as I want. Now if I could only answer them." This is going to be interesting when I come to write about Far Cry 2.

(tags: games narrative story michaelabbott dissonance design mechanics systems )
Bubble Calendar, a poster-sized calendar with a bubble to pop every day.

"a poster-sized calendar with a bubble to pop every day". Yes please!

(tags: calendar bubblewrap design amazing )

30
September
2008

Links

Tagged as:
altitude, author, background, calvino, comic, design, designer, experimental, flash, gameplay, games, lighting, mechanics, narrative, photography, play, rules, rulesets, scale, science, space, stevegaynor, strobist, studio, technique, tutorial, visualisation, xkcd.

Zack Arias – Atlanta based editorial music photographer » White Seamless Tutorial :: Part 1 :: Gear & Space

"If I had but one backdrop to use for portraiture I would choose a simple roll of white seamless paper. With one roll of paper you can create many options. For the rest of the week I’m going to break it down for you. We are going to look at getting it to pop to pure white, making it various shades of grey, getting it to go black, gelling it to any color in the rainbow, and doing very easy and quick changes in post production to further the visual options available to us when using such a simple background." Fantastic tutorial.

(tags: tutorial technique lighting strobist photography background studio )
Ludomancy » Sense of Wonder Night

"Moon Stories, a collection of my latest three experiments, got selected to be presented at the Tokyo Game Show during the Sense of Wonder Night, the japanese version of the Experimental Gameplay Sessions." Beautiful, notably "I wish I were the Moon"

(tags: games play calvino narrative experimental gameplay flash )
Fullbright: On Invisibility

"In a strange way then, the designer of a video game is himself present as an entity within the work: as the "computer"– the sum of the mechanics with which the player interacts." Fantastic piece from Steve Gaynor, which touches on some notions of the death of the designer – namely, that the designer *is* inherently present in games; they embody themselves in mechanics, and games that downplay logical mechanics that players can reverse-engineer do themselves a disservice.

(tags: games design play mechanics rules rulesets stevegaynor designer author )
xkcd – A Webcomic – Height

I don't normally link to XKCD, simply because it would become repetitive… but "Height" is really lovely.

(tags: science visualisation comic xkcd scale space altitude )

17
May
2007

posts

Tagged as:
classical, experimental, music, tv, video.

Water Walk

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John Cage performs his composition “Water Walk” on popular 1960s US TV show “I’ve Got A Secret”. As music, it actually works well; as performance, it works even better. There’s something almost surreal about putting a figure like Cage on light entertainment show, but it makes me wonder if anyone would do something like this nowadays. Via Nicky, via boingboing.

Water Walk

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