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Pinnacle of Gaming Technology
(before you ask if this picture is meant to be impossible to read... Yes, this is how it looks in real life...)
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Alarmingly These Are Not Lovesick Zombies, Superstitious Appliances, Hymns of the Drowning Swimmer, and This is How You Will Die…
From the titles alone, you already get the impression that Jason Nelson’s online computer games transcend the usual mission-based, complete-the-task and then-move-up-a-skill-level games. Wikipedia notes that one of his award-winning works…has been mentioned by numerous gaming blogs as either genius or insanity in game form.
Nelson is a cyber poet who originally hails from Oklahoma and now teaches Net Art and Electronic Literature at Griffith University at the Gold Coast. His prolific output (30 games in five years) is featured in galleries and museums in Asia, Europe and the Americas, and has received many art awards. Collaboratively
Nelson’s professional profile states, “…as a writer of interactive media, one must see everything as a possible poetic/prose/fiction component. Interface, animation, sound, interactivity, words, generation, video, time and space all become as important as verbs and narrative structure. You are director, scriptwriter, technologist, artist, discoverer and obscurer of curious creatures.”
“I’ve created a few art/poetry games...using a basic platformer interface or monster shooter and hand-drawn graphics reconfigured into marked-up text and poetic videos on jump and click. Other works…rely on screen morphology with mouse-controlled text spinning to sounds and a maze-like grid of sections masquerading as typical stanzas.”
His genre is so difficult to describe that it’s easier to provide the link to his website: www.secrettechnology.com, and tell you to go play and see.
By Bernadette Ashley
Art U Game Forum
Pinnacles Gallery
Riverway, Thuringowa Central
February 28 1- 4pm
Free, but bookings essential
4773 8871
