Strange Imaginary Games
RND// To consider the strange existential airless of old Half Life (videogame) modifications: 3900 x 2220 .jpg That is, the sense of depthless estrangement and silent, desert-dry alienation felt while wandering such spectral nonplaces. Screenshots via Azure Sheep mod. Halo Infinite Existential Multiplayer Boredom Zack Snyder’s Awful “Army Of The Dead”: An Existential Movie Review … Read more
RND/ To consider landscape paintings from “The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter” by gamedevs The Astronauts: 3916×2236 .jpg In which you gave up playing the game shortly after entering the graveyard, since you could not find a piece of missing crow (or whatever the hell it was) and didn’t feel like slowly back-tracking over the entire … Read more
RND/ To consider conceptual paintings of images of dead mods: Images via the continually undying moddb.com 1920 x 1080 .jpg In which the abandoned and-or generally (inherently) incomplete nature of such projects is a strange marvel to behold; lost memory fragments from a civilization that never quite got fully started, and was perhaps doomed from … Read more
RND/ To consider scenes from the two dimensional city – featuring virtual photography from LOTUS-simulator. Images via Steam Community – 1920 x 1080 .jpg: This pervasive feeling of flatness, of an uncanny space without depth – that the whole of this videographic reality is painted on or projected onto a vast, two dimensional screen. An … Read more
RND/ To consider the virtual photography screenshort art of Sven Co-Op: 1920 x 1080 .jpg via Steam community Virtual Photography Exhibit: Global Videogame Capitalism and its Existential Threat FusionVille 1 Mod (Half Life 2): Widescreen Virtual Photography Screenshots Phoenix Contact Map (FusionVille 2 Mod): Widescreen Half Life 2 Virtual Photography Screenshots Pseudo Liminal Kenopsia In … Read more