Meant to do just a warm-up thing with this but ended up painting for a couple hours. Very relaxing on a rainy Sunday. :) Featuring Sansa Stark in the last Game of Thrones episode.
Congrats to ^alicexz who has taken social media by storm lately! Her Sansa was featured by HBO’s Game of Thrones Twitter and Tumblr account!
The Art of Computer Game Design
A book from 1982 that examines the art, science and philosophy of game creation at a time when the industry was new. It is particularly interesting when it examines classic arcade games familiar to all. From the introduction:
Games are a fundamental part of human existence. The parlance of games has insinuated itself into our language to refer to activities that are not truly games. We play along with activities we find distasteful. We play ball with those who require our cooperation. We play games when we are insincere. A willing participant is game for the enterprise. This broad penetration of gaming concepts into the entire spectrum of human experience presents us with two potential barriers to understanding games …
… Let us begin this endeavor by stepping back for a moment and taking our bearings. Let us take a brief tour of the universe of games, glancing briefly at each of the major regions. In the course of this tour I hope to refresh the reader’s memory of games and make some simple points before digging into the serious analysis of fundamental game characteristics. I perceive five major regions of games: board games, card games, athletic games, children’s games, and computer games.
The whole document is available to download as a PDF file here, and is also available for the Kindle from Amazon [US] here
5th Avenue Frogger
Retro arcade game Frogger modded to use real-time traffic information from the busy New York road.
5th Ave Frogger is similar to the 80’s classic Frogger except the cars you dodge are actual cars driving down 5th ave in real time.
This year is Frogger’s 30 (ish) birthday. To celebrate, I wanted to imagine what Frogger would be like if it was developed today.
The project has it’s own Tumblr site, which you can visit here
“Digital 0.1” - Portrait painting by Sam Spratt
An experiment of sorts.
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