15.11.12 – 20.01.13

GAME: THE FUTURE OF PLAY

A free exhibition featuring everything from work by world-renowned game designers such as Eric Zimmerman and architect Nathalie Pozzi to hacks on old favourites like Lunar Trails by Seb Lee-Delisle. GAME offers you the chance to get directly involved in the world's most compelling game play.

Curators

Steve Collins - CTO and Co-founder of Swrve, founded the TCD computer graphics group.

Michael John Gorman - Founding Director of Science Gallery,Adjunct Professor of Creative Technologies at Trinity College Dublin,

Mads Haahr - Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin

Vicky Lee - Game Researcher

Highlights

Exhibits

Featured

RENGA

For the first few thousand years of their existence, games were live social experiences, but video-gaming has changed the perception of what a game is…

QRZar

QRZar began as an undergraduate project at Trinity College Dublin,…

The Science Of Games

Tiltfactor Laboratory will offer visitors to GAME [aged 18 and older] the opportunity to participate in an actual game research study at Science Gallery.

BRAM STOKER’S VAMPIRES

This location-based augmented-reality game turns players’ smartphones into paranormal detection devices…

OUTERBODY MAZE

Picking up where his 1996 installation The Importance of the I 1 left off, Jason Wilson created The OuterBody Experience Lab in 2012…

Granny’s Backyard

RELAX AND RACE

Relax and Race involves the use of a novel biosensor [called the PiP] in a simple racing video game that runs on an Android tablet…

KINECT2SCRATCH

Kinect2Scratch allows data from a Microsoft Kinect controller be sent to Scratch…

ANGRY BIRDS

Angry Birds is a new piece by Evan Roth that comments on the rise of casual gaming, identity and our relationship with mobile devices…

MY LIFE WALKTHROUGH

My Life Walkthough is a platform adventure game version of the popular lifebook format used in reminiscence therapies for older adults with dementia.

GAME BORDER

Nintendo launched the Game & Watch in 1980…

RE-PONG

In the short history of video games, most evolution has centred around better graphics, better sound and storytelling…

ARE YOU A GOOD LOCALISER

Are You a Good Localiser is a scientific experiment held within the context of an immersive 3D game based solely on sounds…

LUMMOBLOCKS

Lummoblocks is a new version of the legendary Tetris…

BIONIC ROSHAMBO

Bionic Roshambo was built in 2002 as the practice based element of Kieran Nolan’s MA in Interactive Media thesis…

GENERATIONS

Can we bequeath a save file in the same manner we bequeath a masterpiece or a family photo?

GAME ARTHRITIS

In 2011, IOCOSE and Matteo Bittanti worked together to create Game Arthritis…

LUNAR TRAILS

Created in 1979, Lunar Lander was one of the of the very first arcade games…

HOW TO BABYCASTLES

How to Babycastles was a three-day workshop that combined independent games from local game developers in Dublin…

BELIEVABLE GAME WORLDS USING PHYSICAL SIMULATION

Tennis for Two [1958] simulated a game of tennis and Space War [1962] simulated a battle between two opposing spaceships…

INTERFERENCE

Interference is a game that was commissioned by and premiered at la Gaîté Lyrique in Paris in 2012…