100 Free Assets was made for last weekend’s Klik of the Month Klub, as a response to this list of 100 Free Assets for Unity 3D. I downloaded as many as I could, and used them to construct somewhere interesting to explore. Some of them have built-in behaviours: for example that monster thing moves with the player.
I’ll also mention that the website I was working on is up and running (while still being expanded upon) at blueberrysoft.ryliejamesthomas.net. Simple websites are not as much fun to make as they used to be.
Which seems as-good-a-place-as-any to start catching the Internet up to what I’ve been making. In this last half, of my final semester I’ve been experimenting with ‘play spaces’, and currently and more specifically digital play spaces. This has come out of something I was doing as a break from art making during the holiday—recording myself playing about in other peoples’ games—and has evolved through thinking about performance in virtual space, to now trying to make open, kinda dumb, play spaces, where the player is asked to make something of / complete the work. I’m putting together a little web page to keep them all which I’ll link to when I’m done.
On Saturday we went on a trip up to almost-Horsham to watch a three team football match, organised by artist Gabrielle de Vietri. I guess I don’t have any art things to say about it, but it worked really well!
Yesterday I went to see the exhibition of work by the architecture masters students at RMIT, on the top floor of the very handsome building 100. The exhibition was not so interesting (architecture models and renders are weird and tacky to me), but the outdoor pavilion space is lovely: private feeling, but with great access to 360 degree view of the city.
Today I recorded myself playing Juliette Porée’s Destroy Your Home — a ‘Let’s Play’, they’re typically called. It’s a simple game built around Unity‘s built-in physics, the goal being to destroy your home, which is built of uncertainly stacked discrete objects. It’s the kind of game I like, more toy than game, a space for making your own games. These videos are me playing with this approach; playing, sculpting, performing—.
I would like to write more about these types of games/toys, and I have had an empty Tumblr blog reserved for the purpose. I would also like to make more, and make more videos like this.
