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The Weird World of Art Videogame Mods Print E-mail
Written by Ninox   
Sunday, 03 September 2006

Welcome to the strange world of artist made videogame mods.
Here are four examples. I leave it up to you to enjoy or not.

Super Mario Clouds
Cory Archangel 2002
http://beigerecords.com/cory/Things_I_Made_in_2003/mario_clouds_2005.html

Made by adapting a old Super Mario
Brother Nintendo cartridge and erasing
everything but the clouds. Sublime.

Velvet Strike
Counter Military Graffiti for Counterstrike
Anne-Marie Schleiner, Brody Condon & Joan Leandre
http://www.opensorcery.net/velvet-strike/

Downloadable spray paints with anti-war images
for the popular shooter Counterstrike. Its interesting
to check out the response from the Counterstrike
community on their webpage.

Adam Killer
Game MOD (Original Game: Half-Life)
Brody Condon 2000-2002
http://www.tmpspace.com/ak_1.html

Exploiting a bug in Half Life that creates trailing effects,
Adam Killer the screen turns into a mess of smeared
textures. This mod features multiple Adams as the only
bland target.

Untitled Game
Modifications of Video Game (Quake 1)
Jodi 1996-2001
http://www.untitled-game.org/download.html

In Untitled Game Jodi created a series of Quake mods,
playing with the code and graphics. The first modification,
"Arena", is blinding white. All monsters, characters and
backgrounds have been eliminated. Only the interface
and sound remain. In Spawn, shooting is transformed into
spraying grey pixels over an black background. The
spacebar in E1M1AP makes the world rotates uncontrollably.
In G-R the screen refreshes continually with bright RGB colours,
while in Ctrl-9 and Ctrl-Space, navigating results in
surging black and white patterns.

For more go art mods look at:
http://www.hartware-projekte.de/programm/inhalt/games_e.htm
http://www.selectparks.net/index.php
http://www.movingimage.us/alt/culture.html

 

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