Game Poems — Issue #1: First Moves

Game Poems is a playable magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames. 

Issue #1, "First Moves," presents a curated collection of tiny experimental games by poets, artists, scholars, and independent game developers from around the world. Each game is designed to be played in just a few minutes. 

Rather than treating games as illustrations of written text, Game Poems approaches game-making itself as a poetic practice. Each game explores personal experience, constraint, ambiguity, and lyric expression through game mechanics, images, sound, and interaction.

What You'll Find Inside

• 13 short, experimental games
• Most playable in under 5 minutes
• Games by artists, poets, scholars, and students, as well as indie developers and lead designers at AAA studios.
• A wide range of styles, from minimalist and contemplative to strange and chaotic.
• Each game offers a different perspective on what a "game poem" might be.

Contributors to Issue #1

• Brendan Allen
• Gregory Avery-Weir
• Pippin Barr
• Kaitlin Bonfiglio
• Caitlin DeRosa
• Roman Gvozdev
• Tereza Kotěšovcová
• Geoffrey Mugford
• Adam Pype & Viktor Kraus
• Ash Rezvani, Brittany Westlund, Kate Lloyd
• Isaque Sanches
• Melanie Wigger
• Yifan Yuan

About the Project

Game Poems is an open-access magazine dedicated to publishing short games directly in a playable format.

The project connects communities across:

• Independent games
• Digital literature
• Poetry
• Game Studies

Learn more (and submit a game to our next issue!) at https://www.gamepoems.com/

Press Kit: https://gamepoems.com/presskit

License

The magazine (and all games within it) is published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. 

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