Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

"Voluntary Attempts to Overcome Necessary Obstacles" at EFA Project Space, Sept 23 - Oct 29, 2022

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My gay historical bathroom cruising game "The Tearoom" is part of a new upcoming group exhibition "Voluntary Attempts to Ove...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

We Dwell in Possibility as queer gardening simulation

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all drawings by Eleanor Davis "We Dwell in Possibility" (WeDIP) is a new queer gardening simulation game about planting bodies and...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

MIF commission "We Dwell in Possibility" coming in July 2021

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Manchester International Festival (MIF) just announced my upcoming project "We Dwell in Possibility" , a queer gardening crowd sim...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Hard Lads as an important failure

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Hard Lads by Robert Yang This post “spoils” what happens in my new game Hard Lads . If you care about spoilers, you should play it before...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Thick skin: complexion, realism, and labor in games

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In Dublin, I visited the  Lucian Freud Project at IMMA . If you're not familiar with painters (who is these days?) Lucian Freud is...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Black and white and re(a)d all over: on SOD (1999), Half-Quake (2001), Jeux d'ombres (2007), and NaissanceE (2014)

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Last week I finished playing through the entirety of NaissanceE (2014) , an avant-garde walking sim / platformer game inspired by brutali...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

"Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt" @ Victoria and Albert Museum

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I got to attend the private premiere of the new "Videogames" exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The show ...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Remastering Rinse and Repeat

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Rinse and Repeat remastered, for Radiator 3 (2018) Rinse and Repeat (2015) I'm nearing the end of the remaster process for my sh...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Toward an honesty of pixels: on Final Fantasy 12 HD and Quake 3 Arena

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combined screenshots from Final Fantasy 12 (PS2, 2006) and Final Fantasy 12 HD (PS4 Pro, 2017) You either love or you hate Final Fantasy...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Bevels in video games

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Like a lot of digital artists today, I learned Photoshop in the late 90s in order to make awesome-looking fan sites and "professiona...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

From modders to mimics: a people's history of the "prop hunt" genre

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This post contains minor gameplay spoilers for the first hour of Prey (2017). Contemporary game design is built on the blood, sweat, and...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

"Consider the Chair" in Heterotopias 002

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For  the new issue #002 of the video game architecture zine Heterotopias , I've contributed a piece on chairs in video games (though...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Lighting theory for 3D games, part 5: the rise and fall of the cult of hard shadows

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This is part of a series about a critical theoretical approach to understanding video game lighting, while staying grounded in technical ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Apply to STUGAN, a bucolic game design residency in Sweden

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Stugan is a residency program for indie game designers to hang out together in a beautiful cabin in the Swedish countryside and work on ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Why I am one of the most banned game developers from Twitch, and 3 steps they can take to fix their broken policy

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EDIT, 14 July 2016: this original post has been cross-posted (with a few additional excerpts, for context) to Polygon. A few days ago,...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Working with custom ObjectPreviews and SkinnedMeshRenderers in Unity

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Unity's blendshape controls -- basically just a list of textboxes -- were going to cause me a lot of pain. After wrestling with broke...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

A history (and the triumph) of the environment artist: on The Witness and Firewatch

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This post vaguely spoils random bits of Firewatch and The Witness. I wouldn't worry about it. Only a few years ago, hiking games (f...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Identity, camerawork, and time in games; on "Into" by Audrey Moon

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This post spoils Into , which is about 5-10 minutes to play. You should probably play it first, if you care about spoilers and such. I...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

Sex games, part 1: sex as bodies

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This post is part of a series about "sex games" , based on a talk I gave at GaymerX3. (CONTENT WARNING: these posts have sexua...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

"Rinse and Repeat" technical post-partum / how to do over-complicated wet skin shower shader effects in Unity

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This is a technical overview of how I built certain parts of Rinse and Repeat . It spoils the game, so you should probably play it first ...