Art Games Thesis

For my final year of college, two of my best friends and I decided to take the minimum amount of classes possible and create space an undergraduate thesis of our own design. In the last half of 2023, we made 9 game prototypes, each attempting to address a specific question or prompt through the medium of games. You can read about each of these on our blog: https://artgamesthesis.com/. In our final semester, we are in production to create an art game about hyperreality.

The featured blog posts will give you context on what we're currently working on and introduce you to the theoretical work we are doing around hyperreality.

Featured Blog Posts

The Tower – 12/6/23Ascend to the top of the Tower and find the answer you seek. The game was made over the course of three weeks with the intention of making a a game about hyperreality.

Aero-Dynamics – 2/9/24What were we trying to accomplish and what did we do to pursue the goals we set for ourselves? This is our first project for the second semester of this thesis. We ended 2023 with a prototype and a…

If you find any of that interesting, I wrote an additional piece that connects to the idea of hyperreality. I will warn that it is less concrete than some of my work in games and is more about a specific lens that I've personally found helpful for engaging with hyperreality. It is, moderately, goofy.

Understanding Magicians as a Mechanism that Naturalises the SupernaturalAs Denizens of Hyperreality