Posts Tagged ‘berlin’

iMountain.us

Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Play iMountain.us

This casual simulation game offers you the possibility to experiment with the idea of visualizing yourself as a mountain, and through that gain calm awareness of yourself in the world. It’s partly inspired by mindfullness, described shortly at Wikipedia. Try to close your eyes. Then visualize yourself as a mountain. The weather changes. The sun shines, a bit rain, wind, snow, storm, maybe some lightning, then calm weather, a few skies. A few sheeps go up, then dissappear. A tourist bus comes up the road. The tourists get out. Go up the mountain. Disappear. Seasons change but the mountain stays the same.

The game helps to think of how a mountain is placed in the world. It is a procedural rhetoric in the sense that by playing you momentarily accept to experiment with the interface of the simulated model which you wouldn’t do otherwise. This way you accept to learn the offered rhetorics. iMountain lets you play with the reason of  immersion, and hereby think of which context it is within. The challenge is to translate a casual game as more than a geeky experience within the context of an online singleplayer game.


Pancake simulation

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

This fall i will present a series of casual online games, which will be accessible in private and public spaces, playable on the Wii browser and in most other regular browsers.

The first ones are

PANCAKES

September 12th, 14 – 1530, you are welcome to come and make pancakes. We will also try to fry a fish and maybe make some coffee. Please remember to brush your teeth, and also to do the dishes before you leave. If you feel like it you are welcome to vacuum the floor or even take a nap


In the next games play will move to the mountains, online play will be considered as part of the world, and then play move to the jungle.
Casual games are short fun moments. On the Wii they are available through a downloadable browser or as bought games. Homemade games are often smaller productions, however that means they also provide a different take on what is fun, than games made by large teams. I hope you will join me in this grinding experimentation with simulation games and casual play in public accessible online spaces, in your private browser and also presented in a private flat in Berlin.

Have fun

The project is supported by the Danish Art Council

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Pecha Kucha DMY

Monday, June 15th, 2009

i presented my project about rules, Call for EULA’s, thursday june 4th at Pecha Kucha in Berlin.

Pecha Kucha, japanese for chit-chat, is a format for a series of short presentations with 20 pictures, 20 seconds each. Here’s a video with slides and talk. http://pechakucha.de/webplayer/PK_13_1/04_JonPaludan.html

The Gemini Show 2009

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Curated by April Gertler and Lise Harlev.

The Gemini Show

Saturday, June 14th, 2008


Curated by April Gertler and Lise Harlev