The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer

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Michael Maizels (Mellon New Media Curator/Lecturer, The Davis Museum at Wellesley College) Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago)

The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer

Michael Maizels (Mellon New Media Curator/Lecturer, The Davis Museum at Wellesley College), Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago)

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MIT Press
22 January 2016

Electronic, holographic & video art; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Individual designers

Series: The MIT Press

A generously illustrated volume that documents the career of Jason Rohrer, one of the most heralded art game designers working today.

A maker of visually elegant and conceptually intricate games, Jason Rohrer is among the most widely heralded art game designers in the short but vibrant history of the field. His games range from the elegantly simple to others of almost Byzantine complexity. Passage (2007)-acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York-uses game rules and procedurals to create a contemporary memento mori that captures an entire lifetime in five minutes. In Chain World (2011), each subsequent player of the game's single copy modifies the rules of the universe. A Game for Someone (2013) is a board game sealed in a box and buried in the Mojave Desert, with a list of one million potential sites distributed to Rohrer's fan base. (Rohrer estimated that it would take two millennia of constant searching to find the game.) With Chain World and A Game for Someone, Rohrer became the first designer to win the prestigious Game Challenge Design award twice. This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, offers a comprehensive account of the artist's oeuvre. The book documents all seventeen of Rohrer's finished games, as well as sketches, ephemera, and related material, with color images throughout. It includes entries on individual games (with code in footnotes), artist interviews, artist writings, commentary by high scorers, and interpretive texts. Two introductory essays view Rohrer's work in the contexts of game studies and art history.

Exhibition The Davis Museum at Wellesley College

February-June 2016

By: Michael Maizels (Mellon New Media Curator/Lecturer The Davis Museum at Wellesley College), Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780262529112
ISBN 10: 0262529114
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 22 January 2016
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Maizels is the Mellon New Media Curator/Lecturer at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College. He is the author of Barry Le Va- The Aesthetic Aftermath. Patrick Jagoda is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago and cofounder of the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab.

Reviews for The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer

Designer Jason Rohrer is something of a performance artist of the videogame world. This book-a companion to a retrospective of Mr. Rohrer's work at Wellesley College's Davis Museum-celebrates his thought-provoking pixilated creations. His games are not your typical digital diversions.-Wall Street Journal