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Poetics of a parallel reality: Leo Castenada and his rift to alternate spaces.
What makes for spaces in the virtual void? – One may call it a void also because it allows you the liberties of construction and creation in the most coherent or in its fairly banal […] October 8, 2015, Mario D'Souza

TTH:ALDAS CHARACTERS
The Travelling Hand: A Ludic Dream Across the Sea The self, in two halves, moves through space. The space is a carpet, fragments arranged from memory. The Waking self, as it moves has the […] September 18, 2013, gayatri

Preview – VERNISSAGE
A character sheet from Vernissage, the roleplaying game about contemporary visual art! September 17, 2013, zedeck

Design Notes – POLITIKO: India
So, we’ve been working on a game called POLITIKO: India. It’s a card game about AADHAR mix-ups, Third / Fourth / Fifth Fronts, and general fraudulent activity in Indian politics. NO 1: What the hell […] September 17, 2013, zedeck

TTH:ALDAS archival footage
A still from archival footage as a found object. September 15, 2013, gayatri

Preview – POLITIKO: India
What we’re doing today: grossly abridging the demographics of India! (We are rude, ignorant foreigners — what did you expect?) September 15, 2013, zedeck

TTH: ALDAS game world design stage 1
[caption id="attachment_234" align="alignnone" width="600"] The levels / platforms broken ... September 15, 2013, gayatri

Reluctance
When an actor refuses to obey the director, the contract has been violated. With the void of a violation, there is a two options to resolve the impasse. One, the actor can be antagonised and […] September 13, 2013, prayas

POLITIKO
What is POLITIKO? POLITIKO is a card game about Malaysian politics — meaning that it’s a game of scheming and cynical realpolitik. Players assume the role of political parties, and capture support of the […] September 13, 2013, zedeck

The Travelling Hand: A Ludic Dream across the Sea
The Queen has a series of dreams before her death. She finds another sleeper in her dream, the hunter. The game is essentially a co-op found object game, between the dreaming self and the […] September 13, 2013, gayatri

VERNISSAGE
What is Vernissage? Vernissage is CENTAUR‘s foray into digital gaming. A follow-through from our ongoing project Art Dai Dee and borrowing some ideas from Pablo Helguera’s Manual of Contemporary Art Style, it is a […] September 12, 2013, zedeck

CENTAUR – What We Think About Games
We play our life. Life is a game, and we’re fun guys. (We’d like to think so.) You play games, too. The mathematical object defined as “game” must have: players; actions to perform or neglect: […] September 12, 2013, zedeck

WE ARE CENTAUR
Who are we? We are Mun Kao and Zedeck Siew. Together we make up the Centre for Artful and Useful Recreation (CENTAUR), a two-person collective that aims to create useful and artful game-things. We’re […] September 11, 2013, zedeck

Possession
Possession is a craft. You have to mark people in view, crouch up to them and sneakily possess them. They will never find out because they will never be there. Once you possess someone, you […] September 6, 2013, avinash

Ghosts
Ghosts are beings without bodies. There is nothing fantastic and irrational in imagining beings without bodies. If there can be water inside a bottle and water outside a bottle, there need not be so much […] September 6, 2013, prayas

Light and volume studies
A series of images from a set of light and volume studies for a new environment. Having lightmapped approximately 15sq meters, and having replicated the meshes across the build, we are running the scene at […] September 4, 2013, oleomingus

images from movement prototype
Stealth is as much a player’s ability as it is a feature of the environment, The tweaking and detailing of spaces to allow such movement, is a slow but interesting process. *Simplifying the environment and […] August 31, 2013, oleomingus

Prayas Abhinav
Prayas Abhinav is a writer, occasional artist and teacher. He lives with his family in Bangalore and Ahmedabad. He has worked in the last few years on numerous pieces of speculative fiction, software, games, interactive […] August 30, 2013, avinash

Zedeck + Munkao
Zedeck Siew and Munkao part of Centre for Artful and Useful Recreation (Centaur), a research initiative that that develops educational apparati based on ludic principles. Munkao (b. 1982, Kuala Lumpur) is a […] August 30, 2013, avinash

Gayatri Kodikal
Gayatri Kodikal is a film maker based in Bangalore, India. She works with both imaginative fiction and documentary content, many times morphing the boundaries of the two. She also works in the medium of digital […] August 30, 2013, avinash

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