Progress is coming along on Art Game. For one reason or another I haven’t felt much impulse to write about it because the task of actually making it has been a bit more all-consuming than I’d anticipated. Still, the basic flow of the game now completely works. You choose an artist to play as, go to your studio and produce candidate works for a big show, call in the curator to judge the works and pick, repeat for a while until you have work in the show, go to the opening and look at the work on the walls/plinths, and then leave and find out what the art world made of it. That last bit, the ending, doesn’t exist yet, but everything else does, mostly to a kind of “final” level other than bugs. So without making promises, I’m really trying hard to have this game finished and release in the next couple of weeks. It really is time to move to other projects, I think, even though I’m still (rather surprisingly, to be honest) a definite believer in this one.
Wednesday, 16 January
January 17th, 2013 at 3:27 am
Real art is about life, not about someone else’s art. And especially not the “art” created by a nonexistent Atari 2600 pixel character.
January 17th, 2013 at 4:51 am
Brilliant! And will the artists be based on “real” artists? And have it be known who they are?
January 17th, 2013 at 7:44 am
@Hellou – Not entirely sure what you’re talking about there, but okay?
@Andrea – Not sure how far I want to go down that path. Did think about it, but keen to have it be more ambiguous so that it doesn’t distract from making your own work, you know?
January 17th, 2013 at 8:50 am
Concept reminds me a bit of Jon Blow’s old game “Painter” http://number-none.com/blow/prototypes/index.html — forgive me if this is the 100th time you’ve heard about it. Problem with Painter, though, was that it took a really long time to say what it was trying to say, I felt.
Looking good though, keep going!
January 17th, 2013 at 9:24 am
Hey thanks – yeah, “Painter” definitely occurred to me while going through this. It has enough of a twist that I think it’ll be pretty different, but I think it’s a really great space for games to be in in general. Art is pretty hilarious material, really, and poetic at the same time. Well, maybe that’s everything…