OK – the second non-anime/manga related post today, but when my good friend David Surman showed me this today I just couldn’t resist sharing. David is heavily involved in organising Nottingham based games-fest Gamecity, and – well, I’ll let him explain it himself:
This year we commissioned design collective the Alaskan Military School to produce an animation package to communicate the ethos of the event. We recently launched a series of viral spots that are the first part of this collection of new work.
They each take one of our favourite games at GameCity HQ and translate them into a 15 pixel grid. It’s Hyper pixel minimalism! We realised that you can communicate the essence of great, iconic games with minimal visual information. I think this approach echoes the values of the festival, to take a sideways look at games, and foster a creative space.
Too cool. But what about the festival itself? Don’t worry, David has more words for you:
GameCity is a lot of things, but most of all it’s an ongoing project to find out what a videogame festival could be.
Unlike a lot of videogame events, it’s not really a place to come and play them – we’d rather do that at home on the sofa. But if you do love videogames, you’re going to find lots here to enjoy. We’d like to think that there’s something at GameCity for anyone who’s interested in interesting things.
Get over to the Gamecity website to learn more
5 Comments
1 suckhole wrote:
Um, so am I the only one who doesn’t think this is cool? You can’t see anything. And don’t tell me you can, because you can’t.
2 tim wrote:
Well, you are the first to completely miss the point. But don’t worry, I’m sure there will be others.
3 Superlocke wrote:
“You can’t see anything. And don’t tell me you can, because you can’t.”
Oh, really? Cuz I think I just did.
I guess maybe it’s just certain people, but yes you can definitely see what’s going on here.
Well… maybe not YOU… but I and many others can.
So don’t tell ME I can’t, cuz I can.
4 Doomboy wrote:
This is art … I hate people who are like this is dumb…. ITS ARTISTIC PEOPLE AND AWESOME>
5 weigy wrote:
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t too taken to see Ken and Guille like that but the Parappa one definitely made me smile.
I want to go!
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