Jamin Warren founded Killscreen. He produced the first VR arts festival with the New Museum, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival, the first arcade at the Museum of Modern Art, won a Telly, and hosted Game/Show for PBS.
While KS regular Yannick LeJacq was waxing with NIN front Trent Reznor about the soundtrack for the the new Call of Duty, Reznor made some apt observations about the differences between games and music: I walked into Treyarch studios and was just like, “Holy sh–!” It blew my mind that all of these p
Yup. That’s about right.
Christopher Ketcham’s “antimonpolist history of Monopoly” at Harper’s is a great read, a mixture of economic and social theory with a board game everyone knows. There’s a section that describes how the original version of Monopoly, called The Landlord’s Game was designed to teach people the threats
Pig Chase is hands-down one of my favorite projects to emerge over the past year. Designers and researchers at Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) and Wageningen UR have been working on a project to allow farmers to engage with their pigs on more than a “feed me” level. Per the project’s mission, “Thei
At this weekend’s Practice conference at NYU, experimental game designer Chris Bell described the four archetypes that he and the members of thatgamecompany uncovered during the course of development of Journey. It’s something that you’ve probably suspected all along — that the way you play a game m
