game mod

Posted by Derek Yu Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:39:00 GMT


This caught my eye. It’s an old workshop (2007) led by Steph Thirion, who created the iPhone game Eliss. In the workshop, Steph gave students the source code for a simple Breakout game (made with Processing) and had them modify the code to create something new. Most of the students were graphic design majors and not game developers, but they managed to make some cool mods during the workshop.

Now, when you edit animated shapes into a music video, of course they look great, especially if Steph Thirion is the editor. Also, this isn’t really a new concept, considering mods, hacks, and open source have been around since the dawn of games. Still, it’s an interesting idea to create a game that’s made made specifically to be deconstructed and reconstructed like so…

The source is Marie Foulston, via Tigers Hungry.

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  1. John Evans said 29 minutes later:

    You know, there’s a decades-old tradition in music of remixes and remakes. But there isn’t as much of the same thing in games, because game source is much harder to “sample”. It’s just not available most of the time!

  2. cm said about 2 hours later:

    I’m sure we’ve all played plenty of games by artists. This makes me think how cool it would be to play a game made by a graphic designer.

  3. aeiowu said about 3 hours later:

    Reminds me of top-chef last night.

    Cool stuff.

  4. josh g. said about 6 hours later:

    I’ve been thinking about posting some shmuply goodness coded in Processing and letting people go crazy with the code. Want a shmup remix?

  5. Megan said about 9 hours later:

    That was amazing and game companies need to start hiring graphic designers right this instant. Also the music was awesome.

    This should be our next comp.

  6. Alex May said about 10 hours later:

    Really great. Top marks.

  7. torsion said about 14 hours later:

    This reminds me of watching Second Reality on my 386. In a good way.

  8. Danman said about 16 hours later:

    @ Josh g. - YES

  9. God at play said about 17 hours later:

    Now that was inspiring. Thanks :)

  10. ssid said about 19 hours later:

    Oh, even I could get in on a Processing schmup. That’d be awesome.

  11. ssid said about 19 hours later:

    And yeah, the music was great.

  12. FISH said 3 days later:

    every time good graphic design and games meet they turns into magic.

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