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Native name | Critical Gameplay |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Industry | Videogames |
| Founder | Lindsay Grace |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Critical Gameplay is a video game developer, founded in 2009 by game developer Lindsay Grace. [1]
Each of the following games was developed under rapid prototyping constraints, by a single developer, designer and artist for the Critical Gameplay exhibition. [2] Each game was developed in a weekend (art, code, and design) and then tweaked over a week. As such the games are developed under a more independent development model. The games return to the romantic notion of a lone-developer making a game late into the night.
The games listed are a subset of the Critical Gameplay collection which is an evolving collection of game notions.
The games are aesthetically designed to mimic characteristics of the game mechanics within their historical context (indicated by the date following). Each is designed to critique a specific gameplay mechanic from that year's standards.
Their first exhibition of Critical Gameplay was done on April 17, 2009, on West Cermak Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, US.
Their second exhibition was on September 22, 2009, at Digital Expo on Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, US
The third exhibition was done in October/November 2009 at the annual Symposium of the Special Commission of Games and Digital Entertainment of the Computing Brazilian Society (SBGames 2009) on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The fourth exhibition was done in October 2009 on ACE2009 Creative Exhibition in Athens, Greece.
Their last exhibition in 2009 was on International Digital Media and Art Association's 7th Annual conference on Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
University of Twente, Bad Boekelo, Enschede, Netherlands
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