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Mondrian explores the crossover of a certain Dutch painter and videogame art
All art is, to an extent, the act of throwing your ideas at a canvas and seeing what sticks. In the case of Lantana Games’ Mondrian — Abstraction in Beauty, which is scheduled to launch in August, that description is simply more literal than it is figurative. Mondrian is a classic block breaking game. You operate a gunship and hover around clusters of blocks—sometimes cubes; sometimes octagons—firing shots that explode and reshape the central cluster. The net result of this process is an abstracted image. All of this violence and commotion produces intriguing clumps of colored blocks, some of which…