Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To consider the new GTA6 videogame as leaked screenshots from Metaverse VR: 3840 x 2160 .jpg To notice such Eurojank style graphical aesthetics, with their programmer’s debugging command prompts and headups – visible lines of energy flow, indications of movement and inner structural mechanics – a host of normally hidden pathways. It’s like what … Read more
RND/ To consider how something about Davy Wreden faintly grates on your tits and maybe always has. A scenario, in which the LA videogames publisher Annapurna Interactive had a showcase in 2021. Despite being entirely happy, smooth, slick and obviously well produced, its overall atmosphere of patchouli scented Glade Plugin whiteness and whimsy felt cloying. … Read more
RND/ To imagine a game called #Blocktober, in which largely untextured, ‘blocked out’ in progress levels are presented as ready to play: 3840 x 2160, 256 col .png, images via Twitter – In which you still see the exact same kinds of developmental (architectural) paradigms at work, and although in modern terms and methods are … Read more
RND/ To consider game designer Jonathan Blowhard’s “Witness”: Part of the Hypertography One Exhibit The result is the feeling of a game that’s depressingly lacking in energy, heart, and soul. There isn’t even any music. The island may be pretty to look at in screenshots, but in motion it is utterly lifeless. The developer’s sheer … Read more
RND/ to consider Pathologic set in Skyrim Part of the Hypertography One Exhibit research space idea/ recreate slow creeping quote strange vibe flavor of pathologic – x flat quote bleached atmosphere of sinister desperation hallucinatory existential horror in skyrim – with ambient wind noise example background story / context ey called nigel hornswagger mildly dirty … Read more