Talking art and games with Gary Lucken.
We sit down for a natter with videogame-influenced illustrator Gary Lucken, who tells us about getting his big break, collecting retro treasures and kicking his World Of Warcraft addiction.
And the art of the 'premake'.
Such has been the pace of change in videogame technology over the past twenty years that the current releases of today bear little resemblance to those we were playing in the early 90s. But a fondness for looking back is
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Mikaël Aguirre on his techniques, videogames as art and golden fish.
Disenchanted by the lack of imagination displayed in gaming’s current crop, and with a devotion to the art style of games such as Odin Sphere and Muramasa: The Demon Blade, Parisian artist Mikaël Aguirre (aka Orioto) creates beautiful artworks based
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It’s the little things. Hurdle Turtle’s digital ‘front cover’ is styled identically to the earliest NES games, blockbusters like Super Mario Bros. and Metroid. At once both a reverential nod to the early forefathers of a relatively young industry, and
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Pixel-perfect plagiarism.
Three hours in and I can make two sweeping assertions about 3D Dot Game Heroes: 1. It has the Worst Game Title In The World… Ever and 2. It is the Most Meticulous The Legend Of Zelda (NES) Clone… Ever.
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From the outside, videogames are viewed as childish, immature, immaterial. From within the industry, there are accusations of unoriginality, of an endless rehash of the same old ideas. Stephen Lavelle’s ‘Home’ dispels both arguments at a stroke, and offers up
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It was coming up to 15 years ago, on Christmas Day 1994, that a giddy 12-year-old me excitedly unwrapped Donkey Kong Country from underneath the Christmas tree. Not only did I play it all day, I also lugged my SNES,
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The beauty of the digital distribution services available on the current crop of games consoles is the ability to revisit some classic titles from yesteryear without scouring eBay for the original console and the game you wish to play. The
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At the weekend, I found myself in Birmingham at the British International Comics Show (BICS), despite being completely ambivalent to comics while I was growing up. But a friend of mine was keen to go, and I decided to tag
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