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Game Night 4 January 22, 7-10pm We apologize for the rain delay folks, Game Night 4 has been rescheduled for January 22nd! In conjunction with the Attract Mode videogame culture shop, Meat Bun T-shirt design collective and LA Game Space,...
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Right now I'm still drawing as much as I possibly can, which is pretty fun. I'm inventing small projects for my own amusement, which have ranged everywhere from portraits of beautiful Six Apart colleagues, to Kate Bush fan art, to these illustrated game covers. Based off game titles listed in...
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In the Sky I'm finally starting to warm up to my tablet, after years of neglect! Though I still haven't quite adjusted to creating line-work (I'm still scanning hand-drawn works) I've started to color some drawings here and there to practice developing color palettes and digital painting. It's been fun!...
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The incredible awards from the IndieCade award ceremony. To the left we have the Innovative Gameplay award for Marc Ten Bosc's Miegakure, and to the right we have the Sublime Experience award for Steph Thirion's Faraway. This was my second year attending the IndieCade conference down in Culver City, and...
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"You Say Yes" by Jude Buffum Yes, yes, of course I am going to post this. Artist Jude Buffum of The Autumn Society created a fine total of 3 game-i-fied, pixelated renditions of Ghostbusters, The Goonies, and Gremlins. "You Say Yes" is by far my favorite. Notice all those G's?...
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Rough Seas Day by Mark Ferrari and Joseph Huckaby How about I make up for all the recent *cricket noise* on this blog with this double whammy of pixel stuff. First, point your browsers in the general direction of this stunning display of True 8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5 by...
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Much like the celebrated art game Passage, I shouldn't say too much about what goes on in the game pOnd by Peanut Gallery Games without risking the chance of ruining a player's unique experience. It's a browser game, so everyone can try it out. Just take a breath, go forth...
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via www.gamescenes.org Matteo Bittanti has been posting pretty frequently to his site gamescenes with some terrific stuff. A few weeks ago I reblogged his post about Robert Overweg's glitch landscapes, and this week he posted two works in ink by artist Ashley Anderson, who composed these landscapes from a variety...
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From Fast and Furry-ous Animation Backgrounds is a blog that isolates and collects the painted backdrops of many cartoons. I'm not sure how they found them all, but it's pretty neat to see cartoon backgrounds with the cartoon characters omitted. Getaway from Convict Concerto Looking at these it's easy to...
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