600-700 Exhibition Research Writing
BingQing Xu
3/2/2021
After enjoying the three online game galleries, I got many ideas and inspirations. The three museums are “Creative Uncut Video Game Art Gallery,” “Stonemaier Games Art Gallery” and “Adam Devine Video Game Art.” These three game collection exhibitions have their own different collection characteristics.
In “Creative Uncut Video Game Art Gallery,” the main collection is about various type of character concept paintings. There are about 55000 game works are summarized in this game exhibition, these concept arts are sorted by the first letter of the game name. In this exhibition, the most memorable game artwork for me is Melkishida’s “Blue Reflection.” In this game exhibition, the game characters are presented in the form of anime. I saw many other types of game character display methods, which are different from character display methods, which are different from the usual game presenting format. For instance, the usual way to present a game includes front view, side view and back view. But this art collection also includes some character hairstyles, clothing, posing and variety of game environment sources. These display methods have given me some new inspiration for expression the new gaming characters.
The second game pavilion I visited is “Stonemaier Games Art Gallery.” This game art gallery is very different from the first one. It mainly displays the props and models from the different board games. In this game exhibition, it describes the game background information of each exhibit, its origins and the game props component. For example, Jamey Stegmaier and Alexander Schmidt’s board game “Red Rising” has many kinds of boards game props displayed inside, including all kinds of cards with text explanations, fantasy game backgrounds, colourful tokens, dice with multi- faceted graphics, digital templates and a notebook for recording the game process. “It is a hand-management, combo-building game.” Says by Pierce Brown. In addition, I also found some interesting interviews and reviews about these games. In the video interview “Roll for Crit” (rules and review) it says that: “Red Rising is a satisfying and well executed hand management game that puts the series’ extensive cast to good use with over 100 character cards and nearly endless potential combos.” Scythe is also one of the interesting board game I found in the Stonemaier Games Art Gallery. In Compare to “Red Rising”, “Stonemaier” is more complex. This is a multiplayer board game, allows 1-5 players to play in the meantime. The background of the game is taking place from the 1920s, it draws the war of old Europe. Each player represents a leader of these countries. They have to lead their soldier to fight and win the final honour. The game composed of 154 cards and props. The Player controls the total role of the game, every step the player take can lead the game ends in a different path.
“Adam Devine Video Game Art” is the last collection exhibition I have been visited to. The game collection in this art gallery is very similar to the first game museum I have visited. It also includes the drawings of the characters. In addition, the difference is that this collection also uses the production method of water frame to show some 3D character models. This art gallery describes the way of transforming an idea into a real object. What makes me think more about the digital game is that it uses pictures to show the process of building and colouring some characters.
As a result, these three game museums exhibited the knowledge about board game props, 3D models, and game character design piece.
Bibliography:
Creative Uncut (2003) Video Game Art Gallery. Available at: https://www.creativeuncut.com (Accessed: 28/2/2021).
Stonemaier Games (No date) Art Gallery. Available at: https://stonemaiergames.com/games/scythe/gallery/ (Accessed: 28/2/2021).
Adam Devine (No date) Video Game Art. Available at: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/adam0788/video-game-art/ (Accessed: 28/2/2021).