Preview: Creating artistic games

Movies range from low-brow to high-brow, from snackfood to haute cuisine so to speak, and slowly but surely games are covering this whole range as well.

Game technology falls in the hands of artists. The audience desires new experiences. Sectors collide. In fact, the German Association of Game Developers GAME has just recently become a member of the German Arts Council, the national federation of cultural associations. (press release in German)

And in the Netherlands three leading cultural organizations, the Visual Arts Fund, the Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund as well as Virtueel Platform have decided to join forces and stimulate artistic game development. Innovative concepts by game developers with partners from the arts sector can receive up to 50.000 Euro in funding. Deadline for entry is 15 September – and the winners will be announced at PICNIC’08, on 26 September!