I've done a lot of Bioshock Infinite shots but I hadn't really done the original so I decided to have a go. It was a very different experience from Infinite, much darker and ominous making for a very different kind of image. Also the original Bioshock has almost no peaceful NPC's (non-player-characters) wandering around so portraiture is much less of an option, I ended up focusing a bit more on the incredibly unique place of Rapture.
So finally got around to making up some panels of the time passing in Forska.
The straight edges defiantly work better than the faded ones, but I like the linearity of the single strip. I was also going to do this with my images from Proteus, but I have nearly a hundred going through different seasons as well as the day-night cycle, so it's going to take a bit of time to sort out and implement. Another space exploration game. The scale in this is just immense. As well as the field of view options being 45-150 degrees, more than almost any other game I can think of, making for some interesting distortions.
Unfortunately all I had was the demo, so I didn't get as much time with it as I would have liked, I really wanted to know what happened when I reached the sun, perhaps that is part of the work, the mystery of the unknown, did the ship continue on or was it saved? It also has a retro-mode in which you can choose the size of the pixels. The Beginners Guide is the newest game from the same person who made The Stanley Parable, one of my favorite games and one I've used quite a lot in my work. Naturally I was very keen to play his new creation and it did not disappoint. Though not a fun, humorous game like the last one, it had some really interesting things to say.
Everyone takes away something different, and without being spoiler-y I took away a lot about how being a creator works and the relationship a creator has to that which they create. Also the question of meaning comes up a lot, whether meaning is necessary for art etc. If you have any interest in playing the game, best not look at the pictures below, very much a game that's best enjoyed unspoiled. I took a bunch of pictures in this one |
AuthorMy name is Sarah Lawson, I am a final year student in the bachelor of Visual Arts Photography at UniSA Archives
November 2015
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