The curators of Blank Arcade: Games out of joint invited submissions for a showcase of games and related media to be displayed at the 2015 DiGRA conference at the Leuphana Centre for Digital Cultures, in Lüneburg, Germany, May 14-17th. The selected works represent the best application of the theme "games out of joint" as they relate to the notion of games and play as creative research. The work is collected in two categories. The first category includes work which supports the artistic, non-commercial research and aesthetics of play. The second category includes work which extends the commercial game medium by aligning with the aesthetic and experiential qualities of traditional digital games, but extending the aims of such work.
This small collection of games as art aims to offer perspective on creative digital games research.
Curators:
Lindsay Grace, Paolo Ruffino
2015 Selected Works include:
- Colorigins: A Tactile Color Mixing and Matching Game, Brad Tober
- Stealth, Martin Reiche
- CONTROL - an experimental (meta) game about interface constraints, Kieran Nolan
- Arthur Rimbaud in Liberty City, Colleen Flaherty and Matteo Bittanti (Coll.eo)
- Zelda Deforested, Mark Franz
- I Wish I had the Boy, Eliran Vegh
- Bottle Rockets, James Earl Cox III
- Nothing Remains Unseen, Perola Bonfanti
- Black Like Me, Lindsay Grace
- Shapes, A Tactile Physical Rehabilitation Game, Niels Quinten
- Sibi, Roberto Fassone
- polyCopRiotNode_
Adam Trowbridge & Jessica Westbrook Channel TWo
- 404Sight, 404 Sight Team (@404Sight)
- Skyward
Level 404, Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD) Game Lab
- Splattershmup Team Splattershmup (including Andy Phelps, Aaron Cloutier, Christopher Cascioli and Jenn Hinton)
- Cargonauts, Anna Lascari, Ilias Mamaras, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter