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20 Jul 2010To celebrate its swiftly-approaching tenth anniversary, Rockstar Games will compile all of the visual elements that have gone into designing its catalog of games into a three-book set sometime next month. The pages therein will contain everything from conceptual illustrations, models and wireframes to advertisements and box art. This beefy, aesthetically pleasing package comes with [...]
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17 Jul 2010I won’t pretend to know much about the toy/figurine scene other than what I catch briefly over at Tomopop, but I think that even with my limited background in the field I can comfortably say that this Celsius Aran figure by Dave Quiles is amazing. Collectors of such things, can we agree on this? window.google_analytics_uacct [...]
window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; A few months back, I mentioned Game Seeds, the card game created by Utrecht School of the Arts, Monobanda and Metagama to help game designers brainstorm both character design and entire games, by playfully combining their specific mechanics. The post quite happily got far more attention than I would’ve imagined, and (especially [...]
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23 Jun 2010Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani brought a rather incredible historical artifact to the recent NLGD Festival of Games in the Netherlands: a notebook full of sketches from the original design of Pac-Man. The thirty-year-old sketches show that Iwatani had a pretty good idea of how the mazes and Pac-Man sprite would work even in the pen-and-paper [...]
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LeChuck is a classic villain. He has a singular and grandiose focus, always has a sinister plan to achieve his ends and repeatedly opens himself up to being defeated by a bumbling loser with luck on their side. It doesn’t get anymore basic than that. And yet, he has a style and flair all his [...]
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1 Jun 2010Says Alex Varanese of his stop-motion animated shoot’em’up: I’d like to think I’m the first person to be inspired by Michel Gondry and R-Type on the same project. And I’ll be damned if it’s not dying for a collaboration with Crayon Physics creator Petri Purho. the art of alex varanese – my desk is 8-bit [...]
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26 May 2010Do you like art? Do you like videogames? Do you like the art created in the production of videogames? Would you like to see George Wendt in a movie about beans? I can help you with the first three. This Saturday, the Gnomon Gallery will be opening a show of concept pieces from God of [...]
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22 May 2010Simon Cottee (who we last saw creating something wonderful via Sleep is Death) has filmed a short documentary which delves into the world of pixels and pixel art. It features interviews with a number of indie developers, including SiD’s Jason Rohrer. The main argument is that while some developers try to give gamers a sense [...]