Join the National Videogame Museum (NVM) for The Art of Play, a celebration of the contemporary art of videogames.
Open from 14 October 2022, this new exhibition takes you “behind the screens” to reveal the art, creativity and people behind five UK-made videogames. It emphasises the non-digital, handmade and traditional techniques used to create the unique textures and moods seen on screen.
Exhibits include:
Art and Craft of Videogames
Discover drawings, notebooks and physical models created by games studios as they developed their games. And find out more about concept development and inspiration in video interviews with artists and designers. Contemporary favourites Monument Valley, Lumino City and No Longer Home will feature, plus classics like the Dizzy series and Yorkshire’s very own Worms. You'll also get to immerse yourself in a newly released Panoramic Edition of Monument Valley, a meditative puzzle game influenced by the works of artist M.C. Escher.
Star Objects
On display in Sheffield for the first time is a hand-drawn map created by the Oliver Twins in 1989 for Fantasy World Dizzy. The map shows hundreds of intricate level details –clouds, trapdoors, beanstalks – all sketched in pencil. Other rarely-seen objects on display include an Amiga 4000 computer, which was used to design and develop Worms 2. The game's art director Cris Blyth also presents his memos, rough notes and storyboard designs, painting a picture of how blockbuster games were created in Yorkshire in the late 1990s.
Living Collections
Take a deep dive into the tools and techniques behind the production of much-loved games in the NVM's collection in a new series of interviews.
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