ART GAMES
an international game jam network

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ART GAMES meets at A MAZE. / Berlin Festival

Mexico City, Seoul, Boston, Jakarta, São Paulo, Novosibirsk, Athens, and Bangkok: for eight game jams all over the world, ART GAMES united programmers and game developers as well as artists and creatives. Celebrating their diversity, they developed (digital) games which renegotiate the boundaries between art, politics, and games. A selection of games from each location, chosen by a group of experts, will be exhibited at the international A MAZE. / Berlin Festival from April 25 to 29, 2018. more...

Places

Seoul

Mexico City

Art Games Boston © Goethe-Institut Boston

Boston

Art Games Sao Paulo © Goethe-Institut Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo

Art Games Jakarta © Goethe-Institut Jakarta

Jakarta

© Goethe-Institut Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk

Games

LINK © dashteam

LINK

The Fire Inside © @mgaiastudio

The Fire Inside

A.M.E © zewilson

A.M.E

Freeman © iqleisner

Freeman

Room of Truth © verdantium

Room of Truth

ShooJump © ultramanbastard

ShooJump

Babel-o-Rama © timbell

Babel-o-Rama

Babel-o-Rama experiments with the format of multiplayer games on a mobile platform. Three or more players can join to solve word puzzles together. Their shared dictionary will continuously expand by cooperation and teamwork.

Folg Mir! © SherLuck

Folg Mir!

Struggling Dreams © Jeff Campbell, Aslanta Chen, Joe Marchuk, Dan Williams

Struggling Dreams

Every choice entails a hidden cost in the consequences that we have to bear for making it. However, we are uncapable of ever predicting the outcome and foreseeing our destiny, as everything we have and everything we know is always tied to the present. We are forced to make these choices blindly. Some would say that’s unfair, but we would say: That's the joy of the ride.

Harmoni-us © Japes610

Harmoni-us

You Are What You Read © jesso

You Are What You Read

2984 Little Brother © Myung-jin Yang , Youngjoo Yoo, Ga-young An, Jaemin Park, Deokwon Kim

2984 Little Brothers

2984 Little Brother is set a thousand years after George Orwell's 1984. After humans have destroyed the Earth, some escaped to a planet called Utopia. The Utopia Union comprises many tribes who named themselves ‘Little Brothers'. A direct democracy is at work and citizens participate in politics through nine interactive ‘telescreens’. You are one of the Little Brothers. What does your utopia look like?

Sunshine © TEAM SS

Sunshine

In SunShine, players will encounter an extremely incomplete utopia, a virtual reality space. Unlike mainstream game designs, the graphics in this game are not cute but cool and violent. It presents a platform on which every unit is closely interconnected to form an utopia on a virtual planet. Build your own utopia, let it flourish and protect it!

Flower in Gear Created by "Byulbram" KwangSam Kim 2017

Fower in Gear

Run Duarte Run © Julio Salinas Anaya

Run Duarte Run

circled. © Pablo Francisco Montes Romero

circled.

circled. is an experimental abstract game which criticizes how we approach interpersonal relationships and explores social issues, such as rejection, social adaptation, social pressure, personality shifts, identity loss, and destructive behaviours. How much are you willing to compromise to be part of a group? Is it fair to sacrifice our identity for the sake of social adaptation?

Assistant © Jose Alberto Bustillos Gonzalez

The Assistant

Mirror © Robert Sánchez Figueroa

Mirror

Refugee/EMigrant © Luis Castrejòn Suarez

Refugee/EMigrant

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Video

Mexico

Art Games Mexiko

Articles

In July 2015 the ZKM Karlsruhe awarded the App Art Awards for the fifth time. | Photo (detail): © Fidelis, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie

App Art in Germany
Art with Colourful Icons

Artists have discovered the app as a medium. In Germany they can use it to compete for the App Art Awards. It is not always easy there, however, to distinguish among art, interface design and gaming. [more …]
Future Unfolding | Computergame Spaces of Play Screenshot (detail): © Spaces of Play

Games in Germany
Secret Giants

The German game scene is big. Those who know it appreciate its versatility and collegiality. But few people know it. Talented developers want to change that. [more …]
Perfect Woman Photo (detail): © Lea Schönfelder, Peter Lu

Indie gaming scene in Germany
Revolt of the Dwarves

Without a budget of millions and the backing of a major publisher, no video game can be a success. Those days are over. Today independent developers are stirring up the market with small, fine games. [more …]
Gamescom © koelnmesse

Gamescom
Fun is guaranteed

Virtual and augmented reality, serious -and indie games were just some of the topics that kept us busy at Gamescom. But first and foremost we had some pretty interesting encounters with exhibitors and experts from Great Britain, Sweden, the United States and Turkey. [more …]
Computer game Mirror's Edge Catalyst © EA DICE/ Electronic Arts

Games and Gender
Thinkable Female Heroes

Free-lance gaming journalist and game developer Nina Kiel has been dealing with the gender issue in games for years. In her book "Gender in Games" she has investigated gender-specific role models in contemporary titles. [more …]
Tobias Leingruber: Skatekeyboard 2010

Game Art/ Art Games
Game Art killed the Video Star

The market for computer games outstripped over the last year even the good old moving pictures. But the commercial success of new media is usually followed by artistic reflection, artistic derision and artistic refinement. [more …]

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