Videogames

006 DIRECTOR'S FOREWORD, Tristram Hunt
010 INTRODUCTION, Marie Foulston and Kristian Volsing
012 THE ROAD TO JOURNEY, Jordan Erica Webber
032 STREET STYLE IN SPLATOON, Gita Jackson
044 STORYTELLING ON SUMMONER'S RIFT, Philippa Warr
058 PUSHING BUTTONS, Marie Foulston
066 A POUND OF FLESH, Seth Killian
080 CONSIDER THE GUNSHOT, Pippin Barr
088 THE REALTIME ART MANIFESTO: 12 YEARS LATER, Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn
098 HOW TO GET LOST IN A CAVE, Jake Elliot, Tamas Kemenczy and Ben Babbitt
112 TO THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE: THE LAST OF US AND THE POST-APOCALYPSE, Darran Anderson 126 SKIN IN THE GAME, Evan Narcisse
138 PROTOTYPING PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, Jenny Jiao Hsia
148 A CONVERSATION ON SEX AND INTIMACY IN GAMES, Nina Freeman and Robert Yang
160 WHO WATCHES THE OVERWATCHMEN, Kat Brewster
170 MADE IN MINECRAFT, Alex Wiltshire
188 SCI-FI DREAMS AND PROCEDURAL WORLDS, Kristian Volsing
204 CONTRIBUTORS / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Marie Foulston is a Curator in the Design, Architecture and Digital Department at the V&A.

Kristian Volsing is a Research Curator in the Design, Architecture and Digital Department at the V&A.
 

Praise for Videogames: Design / Play / Disrupt at the V&A:

"Visitors to the Victoria & Albert Museum gallery will be able to immerse themselves in the Game of Thrones land of Westeros while watching people splatter each other with ink when a video games exhibition opens this year.
Announcing details of the show on Friday, Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, said video games were "one of the most important design disciplines of our time".
He added that he was confident the museum's founding director, Henry Cole, would also have staged the show. "Contemporary video games are strikingly innovative, uniquely creative and commercially successful - making a huge social and cultural impact across the globe," Hunt said." The Guardian

"Anyone fearful of the effect of video games should spend an hour or two at this exhibition and hopefully come away sharing my optimism." Daily Telegraph

The V&A exhibition will focus on video game design from the mid-2000s, [...] there will be plenty [...] to feast the eyes on, from concept art to moving footage, prototypes, character design sketches, and interactive installations. Highlights will include glimpses into the creative process Nintendo's Splatoon (2015), and of The Last of Us (2013) - a breathtaking post-apocalyptic marvel from Naughty Dog (a sequel is currently in the works).
Also on view will be the painstakingly accurate recreation of the continent of Westeros from Game of Thrones in Minecraft, and a section exploring DIY arcade games and grassroots gaming culture." Wallpaper.com

"Game Of Thrones and the art of Magritte are among the unlikely inspirations behind hit videogames explored in a new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Director Tristram Hunt said it was "the right time" for the museum to be looking at a global business that reaches 2.2 billion people across the world." Evening Standard

"From September the world famous V&A will be giving gamers a