Games by Mark Essen
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Light Industry
55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, New York
[b]Games by Mark Essen[/b]
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 8pm
Game artist Mark Essen, a.k.a. Messhof, will install five playable games at Light Industry, including two new titles: [i]Stenography Hero[/i], a competitive text-based stenography simulator in the spirit of [i]Guitar Hero[/i], and [i]Rail War[/i], a western-themed side-scroller projected in a Cinemascope aspect ratio.
Essen will present a short talk about his work during which he will upload [i]Stenography Hero[/i] and [i]Rail War[/i] live to his website for free distribution. Other titles available for play will include [i]Randy Balma: Municipal Abortionist[/i] (2008), [i]Punishment: The Punishing[/i] (2007) and [i]Flywrench[/i] (2007).
Filled with counterintuitive physics, chaotic game mechanics and bursts of strobing color, Messhof’s work combines the essence of old 2D arcade titles–misleadingly cute single-player games that did everything they could to make you choke on that twenty-five cents–with the viewer-challenging puzzle-logic of avant-garde cinema.
The evening will also include a [...]
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