We were young and wild and free

Kazu Ayabe, Ueda Mineko, Kusanagi et al, 2005
[ Millenium Kitchen / Sony Computer Entertainment ]

~ ぼくらのかぞく ~
Bokura no Kazoku
(My Family Growing Up in the 21st Century)

Xplora 1 Peter Gabriel's Secret World

Real World Multimedia, 1993

[ RealWorld ]

~ GAME COVER & CD ART ~
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~ ARTBOOK ~
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~ QUOTES ~

We wanted to pack it full of ideas. There's over 100 minutes of video, 30 minutes of audio, more than a book's worth of text and over 100 still images, so there's lots of stuff to play around with and get lost in. Besides giving you the chance to get inside the music and videos and start playing with the material yourself, we think that the interactive pieces should be a lot of fun, so we have devised a few surprises that we hope will lead you on some interesting journeys.

- Peter Gabriel

Roboterliebe

Kenichi Nishi & Ryuichi Sakamoto, 2000
[ Love.de.Lic / ASCII Entertainment ]

~ LACK OF LOVE ~

The flower in ripen'd bloom unmatch'd

Kellee Santiago, Jenova Chen et al., 2009
[ Thatgamecompany, Sony Computer Entertainment ]

~ FLOWER ~

Dear Kellee,

I have just finished playing Flower and I would like to say that the game has exceeded all the expectations I created for the last year or so, ever since our interview. Quite often did I wonder how those abstract concepts would translate into an interactive experience. The more I think of it, the more it feels like I just had a vivid dream.

Players like me live their entire lives waiting for games like this to come out and... you did it. I'm at a loss for words. I saw colors I never knew existed; I was surrounded by a beauty I didn’t think possible inside a virtual environment; every now and then… I felt genuinely moved.

Also, it feels great to finally understand the reason for the visual aid “Flow-Flower” on the initial presentation trailer.

Thank you Kellee. Extend my thanks to Jenova Chen and to all the brilliant team members from thatgamecompany. This your audiovisual and interactive poem has brought me and, I believe, so many others the joy and strength to keep believing in the videogame medium.

Warmest regards,

Bruno de Figueiredo @ CoreGamers

28/02/ 2009

Art, Inspired by - II

Steven Lisberger, 1982
[ Walt Disney Pictures / Lisberger-Kushner Production ]

~ TRON ~

Paper Moon's Pop Surrealism Alliterations

Theresa Duncan, 1966-2007 (?)

~ CHOP SUEY ~
Magnet Interactive, 1998

In a place where time stands still

Oleg Kozhukhov, 1998

[ Amber Company / Exortus Inc. ]

~ Лиат: Спираль мира ~
Worldspiral: Liath

Intertextuality

SEGA, 1986

[ SEGA ]

~ QUARTET ~

Akiman, Akira Nishitani, Noritaka Funamizu, Kihaji Okamoto, 1988

[ CAPCOM ]

~ LOST WORLDS ~

Natsume, 2008

[ Hudson Entertainment ]

~ OMEGA FIVE ~

Sensorama

Haruhiko Shono, 1960 -

~GADGET: INVENTION, TRAVEL & ADVENTURE ~
Introduction Sequence (1993)

~GADGET: PAST AS FUTURE ~
Introduction Sequence (1997)

Annabel Lee, by William S. Burroughs

Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 - 1849

~ THE DARK EYE ~
Russ Lees / Inscape - 1995

A love suicide

SHIROGUMI, INC, 2006

[ Punchline ]

~ ル–ルオフロ–ス ~
RULE OF ROSE (2006, Playstation 2)

Direct video conversion (no recording)

~ MOVIE STILLS ~