MITJA KO

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• MITJA KOŠTOMAJ
• Faculty of the Arts
• Thames Valley University
• Interactive Game Play
• Future of games
• Art in Game play
• Concepts of games

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Interactive Game Play

• Today
• Concepts of the Games
• Art in Games and Games as Art
• Future of the Games
• Aim is to give you some ideas about what you want
  to do in the workshop.

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gt Elements of Computer Games

• Rules
• Graphics
• Interface
• Characters
• Places - Arena
• Sound and Music
• Narratives
• Technology
• Players target audience
• Social interpersonal issues

Virtual digital Fictional Real
Context Aesthetics Emotions, feelings
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gt Technology

• Technology drives development of games
• New technology gtgt new titles
• Game platforms
• Mobiles
• New TV screens
• Sensors, webcam interaction
• Home immersive environments

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Playing for respect

• Alexander Galloway on video games in 2003 Tech
• http//www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is
  _4_42/ai_111696412/print
•  
• FORMS OF MEDIA gtgt "thirty-year rule" of
  development. gt starts with invention of a medium
  and ending with its effective operation and
  widespread appearance in culture at large.
• Auteurs in the field define new modes of
  expression within the medium. (Hideo Kojima
  (Metal Gear series) and Sid Meier
  (Civilization's) )
• Is a game art?
• Of course, gaming still resides in a distinctly
  lowbrow corner of contemporary culture, not yet
  deemed--or scrutinized as--an art form.

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Games as High Art

• Digital Games as High Art, Karin Bruns Ars
  Electronica 2004
• www.aec.at/en/archives/festival_archive/festival_c
  atalogs/festival_artikel.asp?iProjectID12989
• Is a game art?
• What connects art and game playing?
• Serious art and entertainment

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Games as High Art

• Digital Games as High Art, Karin Bruns Ars
  Electronica 2004
• How artist approach to games?
• Artistic games like Painstation by Volker Morawe
  and Tilman Reiff (2001) allude to this. In this
  context, they redesign the perceptive and
  receptive register of View, Gaze, Watch, Observe
  etc. that has already been built into the process
  of watching movies and TV. And in this schooling
  of the senses, other traditional skills of
  gameplaying like reaction speed, manual dexterity
  and bluffing ability survive as well.

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PAINSTATION

• Emotions, feelings www.painstation.de/new/whips.ht
  ml
• What are emotions and feelings game players have
  when playing normal game?
• aim gtgt pain
• Boxing, wrestling
• www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1376_touch_me/ex
  hibition_games.html

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gt Elements of Computer Games

• Rules
• Graphics
• Interface
• Characters
• Places - Arena
• Sound and Music
• Narratives
• Technology
• Players target audience
• Social interpersonal issues

Virtual digital Fictional Real
Context Aesthetics Emotions, feelings
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Art Shooter Game Developments

• Taxonomy - from a design perspective - of Art
  Game Mods of a Shooter Game by Maia Engeli
  http//maia.enge.li/gamezone/taxonomy.html
• strip (systematic abstraction and
  intensification) www.ljudmila.org/vuk/ascii/film/
  ,
• shift (visual reformulations)
• impose (superposition of cultural occurrences or
  social aspects)
• recycle (citations of real world forms and
  locations
• overload (superimpose the game mechanics with
  other processes)
• spill (expand into the physical realm)
• breakout (outside the digital realm)
• abuse (neglect the shooting)

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gt Elements of Computer Games

• Rules
• Graphics
• Interface
• Characters
• Places - Arena
• Sound and Music
• Narratives
• Technology
• Players target audience
• Social interpersonal issues

Virtual digital Fictional Real
Context Aesthetics Emotions, feelings
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Mobile pervasive gaming

• Pack Manhattan www.pacmanhattan.com/
• Blast theory productions
• Can You See Me Now? http//www.blasttheory.co.uk/b
  t/work_cysmn.html
• Uncle Roy http//www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_unc
  leroy.html
• Cause and Effect - www.causeandeffect.tk/

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gt Elements of Computer Games

• Rules
• Graphics
• Interface
• Characters
• Places - Arena
• Sound and Music
• Narratives
• Technology
• Players target audience
• Social interpersonal issues

Virtual digital Fictional Real
Context Aesthetics Emotions, feelings
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Computer vision based games

• Commercial
• 1. Intel and Mattel Intel PlayTM Me2Cam
  virtual Game system
• 2. Sony EyeToy camera for Sony Play Station.
  
• QuiQui's Giant Bounce http//www.cs.uta.fi/kukakum
  ma/htmls_en/mitaih/frset.html
• Ambient games from New media art that investigate
  body movement
• Camille Utterback Romy Achituv project Text
  Rain www.camilleutterback.com/textrain.html
• Shadow Story by Charles Forman www.setpixel.com/co
  ntent/?IDshadowstory
• Messa di Voce An Audiovisual Performance
  Installation for Voice and Interactive Media by
  Golan Levin and Zach Lieberman 2003
  http//tmema.org/messa/messa.html.

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Sound interaction in games

• Amplitude xtra http//www.as-ci.net/asFFTXtra/
• Responder 2001 http//www.tomigaya.shibuya.tokyo.j
  p/lilly/delphis01.html
• DANCING KARAOKE CTHULHU http//denning.net/cthulhu
  /
• The Well http//www.toxi.co.uk/thewell/

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Performance, sculpture, movie

• Brody
• http//www.tmpspace.com/carmack.html
• http//www.tmpspace.com/uw.html
• http//www.tmpspace.com/worship.html
• The game is not just a game anymore

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Future of the Games

1. New markets, new content for new audiences
2. Technology
3. Interfaces
4. Places - mobile, pervasive, theatre...