Is game art art?Christopher TottenMAGFest MAGES 2015

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IntroductionsGame Artist in Residence – American UniversityAuthor: An Architectural Approach to Level Design (CRC Press 2014) and Game Character Creation in Blender and Unity (Wiley 2012)Chair – International Game Developers Association (IGDA DC)Founder – Pie For Breakfast Studios

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genreHistory painting – Religious, historic, or allegorical topicsPortrait paintingGenre painting – scenes of everyday lifeLandscapeAnimal paintingStill life

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genreHistory painting – Religious, historic, or allegorical topics

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Karl Bryullov, The Last Day of Pompeii, 1827-1833, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

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Gustave Courbet, A Burial at Ornans, 1849-1850, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

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Diablo III wallpaper, Found on diablo3sanctuary.com

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Jesse van Dijk, Concept art for Destiny, 2014, Found on Kotaku Australia “Fine Art”

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Left: Andy Park Concept art for God of War III, 2010Right: Screenshot from God of War III

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Left: Gomez sprite from Fez, 2012Right: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by William Morris’s

Kelmscott press, 1896

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Dominique Pamplemousse, Dierdre “Squinky” Kai, 2014. Steam and mobile game created with clay, paper, and

cardboard

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The Empty Kingdom, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, 2013. “Hypercomic” game on Kongregate

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Left: Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, El Lissitzky, 1920 – lithographic propaganda poster

Right: Lissitzky’s Revenge, Chris Totten, 2015 – paper cutouts in the Construct 2 game engine

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Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure, Ryan Creighton (age 33) and Cassie Creighton (age 5), 2011, Flash game with

scanned crayon art

Thank you!Twitter: @totter87ChrisTotten3D.comPFBStudios.comamerican.edu/gamelab

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