Nick Murray writes about using games to create unexpected new worlds for .Cent Magazine. You can read the full article here.
“Something that poetry and games do so well, and what connects them, is the ability to present, and invite readers into, an experience with all of its emotional weight and allow them to experience it too. Combining the two art-forms creates something altogether new.”
I keep telling everyone about the time I saw a guy walk up to a stranger and ask if he could recite some Hamlet to them. They listened for a bit, and then after a while, they wandered off, coming back on a quad bike. They beckoned him onto the back and together they rode off into the wilderness. All this happened inside a game – specifically Grand Theft Auto Online – and the man in question was a performer called Sam Crane. For months Sam attempted to perform sections of Hamlet, eventually leading up to a full performance in the digital world, but the moment I got fascinated with was this one I mentioned with the stranger and the quad bike… Read on…