Game Layers for Gameplay
Game Layers for Gameplay
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Seth Priebatsch, game designer, said in his 2010 TED lecture that "from the era of the social layer built by social media to connect all mankind, the expansion of mankind through games will be conducted by game layer.” As such, the act of game playing, which started as a form of play, breaks down the boundaries with reality and expands into every corner of our daily life. Art Game Lectures <Game Layers for Play> looked at various layers surrounding games to look as a new medium of expression.
Wonjoon Yoo presented the correlation between art and games through the gamefic properties of algorithm-based artworks, and Junhee Yoon examined the current game market issues and the potential for development of games from an industrial perspective. Keunseo Park and Jaehwan Park analyzed the game <Sally’s Law> through the relationship between “play (ludology)” and “narrative (narratology),” two classic components of a game. Youngjin Oh and Gayoung An explored the relationship between games and society with the theme of gender, and Yungbin Kwak and Shingyu Kang looked into the gameness in film and broadcasting. Lastly, Jungyeop Lee examined the game ecosystem through indie games and inspirational games.
- Algorithm-Game-Media Art Wonjoon Yoo
- Current Status of Game Industry and Development Environment Junhee Yoon
- Play and Narrative of a Game Keunseo Park, Jaehwan Park (Moderator: Sangwoo Kim)
- Women, Games and Cyborgs Youngjin Oh, Gayoung An
- Game and Visual Media Yungbin Kwak, Shingyu Kang
- Changes in Indie Games and Inspiration Games Jungyeop Lee
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Can recent algorithms-based game properties of artworks become the guidelines of new art? This lecture examined the concept of game art and artistic game from the relationship between art and game introduced in <New Media Art and Game Art>. This lecture explored diverse possibilities of virtual play activities of light, games and art, art as interactive and games as interactive, and art works created by algorithms.
With the booming growth of the cultural contents industry, the size of the Korean game industry accounts for about 55% of the total contents industry exports. The lecture examined the current status and issues of the Korean game industry, which is worth 11 trillion Korean won with 80,000 workers, and introduce strategies that made it possible for small indie games developed in Korea to advance globally and succeed.
The Duality of Ludology and Narratology ■ Keunseo ParkOne of the important theoretical discussions about the nature of the game is whether it is a narrative or play. This is also a matter that can determine whether the game is a medium or content of storytelling or a medium of action and practice. This topic, which seems to be an old -fashioned debate, provides very important implications in the strategy to understand the meaning of the game and structure it.
Narrative in Puzzle Games ■ Jaehwan ParkThrough <Sally’s Law>, which received the best prize at the Google Indie Game Festival in 2016, the lecture examined the role of narratives in the genre of puzzle games and confirmed the complementary relationship between “play” and “narrative.”
Game Culture from the View of Techno-Feminism ■ Youngjin OhWith the biased development of our gaming culture, women are still marginalized and attacked in game production and play experience. How do pre-existing prejudices about the relationship between women, technology and play become a discourse and affect in reality? The lecture diagnosed the current gaming culture from the view of techno-feminism.
Cyborg Imagination in Art Games ■ Gayoung AnThe lecture introduced performative examples showing the cyborg imagination of women through works of feminist artists in the early 90s such as VNS Matrix and French performance artist, ORLAN, who popularized the term “cyberfeminism” and women appearing in recent art games or post internet. And it presented ways women use games as a tool of artistic expression and enjoy games.
Movies and Games: A Note on Their Gravity and Repulsion ■ Yungbin KwakThe relationship between movies and games can be described as a series of trajectories that push and pull one other. This lecture focused on some examples of this strange love-hate or trace of desire and fear relationship between two.
Transforming of Games as Broadcasting, Gamification of Broadcasting ■ Shingyu KangIf we call the recent change of gameplay experience to be the subject of broadcasting as “transforming game as broadcasting,” then we begin to see the change in relationship of recent broadcasting and games to be “gamification of broadcasting.” This can be seen as a change from programs that talk and show games (game reports, e-sports broadcasts, etc.) to programs that fully use it as the form of games (game entertainment, Internet personal broadcasting, etc.). In this lecture, we looked into the characteristics of transforming games as broadcasting, and gamification of broadcasting, how they affect viewers, and what this change of our times means.
Recently, games are becoming not only a simple form of entertainment, but a medium that can address social issues and deliver cultural values. With this, there are an increasing number of games using materials and game mechanics different from previously commercially successful games now have achieved significant success domestically and internationally. In this lecture, we proposed “inspiration game” as a new term to refer to these games, and proposed a game creation and distribution ecosystem strategy these games can be made.
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