In the new game
Avant-Garde, you play an up-and-coming artist in 19th century Paris, a contemporary of Manet and Bouguereau. Carve and sell allegorical statue groups! Get snubbed by Napoleon III! Subsidize Gustave Courbet's drinking! Compose and promulgate your own aesthetic manifesto!
posted by Iridic
on Mar 8, 2013 -
56 comments
The Most Dangerous Gamer The Atlantic profiles game developer Jon Blow, most famous for creating the acclaimed and philosophical
Braid, now working on "puzzle-exploration" game
The Witness.
Blow aims to make The Witness a groundbreaking piece of interactive art—a sort of Citizen Kane of video games...“Things are pared down to the basic acts of movement and observation until those senses become refined,” he told me. “The further you go into the game, the more it’s not even about the thinking mind anymore—it becomes about the intuitive mind.” (
previously,
previously)
posted by shivohum
on Apr 11, 2012 -
74 comments
Pierre de Coubertin is well-known as the father of the modern Olympics. What is less well-known is that he pseudonymously won an Olympic medal - in
poetry (PDF)
[more inside]
posted by Dim Siawns
on Mar 14, 2010 -
5 comments
Like sprites? The People's Sprites has the most extensive repository of old game pixel art I've ever seen. Some good examples from:
Battletoads,
Excitebike,
Final Fantasy GBA,
Mega Man,
Metal Slug,
Mortal Kombat,
Punch-Out,
River City Ransom,
Shinobi,
Samurai Shodown,
Super Mario Kart,
Super Mario World, and my favorite,
Super Metroid.
Hundreds more at the site, plus
original and
public domain ones.
posted by BlackLeotardFront
on Mar 30, 2008 -
17 comments
Whether you love it or hate it,
Ulillillia City is a fascinating site by
fascinating person. It's a meticulously annotated, categorized and laid out record of one man's entire mental life: his colour coded
daily life, his
dreams (over 400!), his
fears, his video game ideas (including
the supernatural olympics), his unique personalized
mind game, his extensive
tips 'n' tricks,
how he processes and listens to music, and far more...
posted by The Wig
on Jul 30, 2006 -
42 comments
