What elements should every game have?

In this feature, published in the new S/S 2023 issue of Fact’s print edition, Serpentine curator Hans Ulrich Obrist asks a range of digital artists what elements every good video game should have.

In 2021, 2.8 billion people—almost a third of the world’s population— played video games, making what was once a niche pastime the biggest mass phenomenon of our time. Many people spend hours every day in a parallel world and live a multitude of different lives. Video games are to the twenty-first century what movies were to the twentieth century and novels to the nineteenth century.

The aesthetics and visual language of games first entered artistic practices decades ago. Artists have appropriated, modified, and often subverted existing video games to reflect on them and to approach questions of our existence within virtual worlds and the socio-political issues involved in the rendering of new realities. Other artists present a critique of games by exposing their often discriminatory elements and stereotypical depictions. More recently, artists have also entered existing mainstream games, opening up to massive new audiences and finding fresh forms of engagement.

Traditionally, video games were created by a small and insular group of people coming from the world of engineering, who produced games with a very limited perspective. This is now changing rapidly, with many more people having access to the tools for making games. Artists are increasingly developing the technical ability to invent, design, and distribute their own games on all continents to create virtual worlds of diversity and inclusion, contributing strongly to a plurality of voices and different perspectives. As Anna Anthropy writes in her book Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: “I want games to come from a wider set of experiences and present a wider range of perspectives. I can imagine—you are invited to imagine with me—a world in which digital games are not manufactured for the same small audience butone in which games are authored by you and me for the benefit of our peers.”

Artists can be said to present an expanded notion of games. Worldbuilding, an exhibition I curated at the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Düsseldorf, which will be shown at Pompidou Metz in summer 2023, highlights how the creation of games offers a unique opportunity for worldbuilding. Within games rules can be set up; surroundings, systems, and dynamics can be built and altered; and new realms can emerge. As artist Ian Cheng often told me, at the heart of his art is a desire to understand what a world is. Now more than ever, the dream is to be able to possess the agency to create new worlds, not just inherit and live within existing ones.

Worldbuilding: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age © Julia Stoschek Foundation

C. Thi Nguyen, in his book Games: Agency as Art, argues that games are unique art forms that offer a temporary alternative experience of life and allow players to enjoy new and expanded forms of agency. The games presented

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Heilind Electronics and Interstate Connecting Elements (ICC) Announce New Settlement with Positronic

Heilind and ICC enhance their offerings with the addition of Positronic’s catalog.

Heilind Electronics and ICC to Distribute Positronic Solutions

Heilind Electronics and ICC to Distribute Positronic Products

Heilind Electronics and ICC to Distribute Positronic Products and solutions

WILMINGTON, Mass., Nov. 23, 2022 (Globe NEWSWIRE) — Heilind Electronics, a leading international distributor of electronic components, has expanded its world wide connector portfolio with the addition of Positronic, an Amphenol corporation.

The distribution agreement incorporates equally Heilind Electronics and Interstate Connecting Parts (ICC), the mil-aero division of Heilind. Positronic merchandise traces implement to a assortment of industries throughout the world which include army, aerospace, telecommunications, health care, industrial and test machines between other folks.

“The addition of Positronic is a excellent gain for our clients,” reported Alan Clapp, SR. Vice President, Heilind Electronics. “This new partnership gives a better variety of interconnect remedies for existing and new customers as effectively as new markets all over the environment.”

“Positronic is excited to partner with Heilind Electronics and Interstate Connecting Factors (ICC)”, mentioned Anita Warner, Director of Distribution, Positronic.  “They have a strong reputation in the marketplace, particularly armed forces and aerospace, which compliments the interconnect remedies offered by Positronic.”

 

About Heilind Electronics

Heilind Electronics, Inc. (http://www.heilind.com) is one particular of the world’s leading distributors of connectors, relays, sensors, switches, thermal management and circuit protection items, terminal blocks, wire and cable, wiring extras and insulation and identification products. Launched in 1974, Heilind has spots all over the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong and China. Stick to Heilind on Fb at fb.com/Heilind and on Twitter at twitter.com/Heilind.

About Interstate Connecting Components (ICC)

A division of Heilind Electronics, North America’s premier interconnect distributor, Interstate Connecting Factors (www.connecticc.com) is an AS9100D-accredited worth-included distributor for the full spectrum of electronic connectors, fiber optic connectors, backshells, tools, identification options and connector contacts. ICC specializes in the navy-aerospace market place and offers value-added assembly on 26482, 26500, 5015, D38999, M28840, M83513 and lots of other MIL-SPEC connector strains.

About Positronic

Positronic builds premium ability and sign connectors for a vast assortment of world-wide industries. But each individual product delivers the same outcome: Certainty. That is our learn spec, our driving goal. We believe in the individuals who are advancing our entire world and building it a better location, those who are recognizing new discoveries, acquiring technologies that enable human beings connect, and increasing commerce to advance economies. That is why we are major about building high-reliability interconnect options – due to the fact failure is not an alternative for crucial programs they will have to conduct. From deep place discovery to health care breakthroughs, Positronic provides The Science of Certainty.

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