ACAVA Artist-in-residence
Nick has been selected as ACAVA’s Artist-in-residence, starting in September 2024. Based in Barham Park, Wembley, Nick will spend six months developing a strand of socially-led playful art. Read more about the project here.
Nick selected for Lodestars 2023
In June, Nick was selected for Film London’s 2023 annual list honouring the innovative creators and practitioners to watch from across the capital. With Lodestars known for their inspiration and guidance, the list celebrates those within Film, TV and Games who shine with outstanding creativity or craftsmanship, tipped to go on to ever greater works […]
Poetry Games in .cent Magazine
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 […]
Poetry Games in the Financial Times
Nick Murray talked to Tom Faber about Poetry Games for the Financial Times. The article can be read online here.
Poetry Games for The London Magazine
Nick Murray wrote about slow games and stripping away the inessentials for The London Magazine. Read the full article online here. “The ways that someone can read a poem are the same ways that one can read a game, and the ways that one could play a game are the same ways that someone can play […]
Publication in Footprints (Broken Sleep)
My poem Doomscrolling as Dowsing for Reports of the First Impact has been published in Broken Sleep Books’ ecopoetry anthology Footprints: an Anthology of New Ecopoetry. You can get the book here.
After Triumph selected for Indiepocalypse #22
After Triumph, my text-based tarot-reading walking simulator is part of the great games anthology Indiepocalypse. I highly recommend you get this issue and all other issues of Indiepocalypse as they’re doing amazing things for indie games culture. Indiepocalypse #22 You can also just play After Triumph here
Tamagotchi Seance selected for HOAX publication
My text-based digipet afterlife communicator Tamagotchi Seance has been selected for HOAX Publication. Presented on their front page for a whole month you can see it here.
Festival ECRÃ
Festival ECRÃ Translating the game into Brazilian Portuguese, Waiting for Godot: A Simulator was exhibited as part of the 5th Festival ECRÃ, Brazil’s contemporary film and game event. The game can be played online here.
Feature on Downtime Symphony (BBC Sounds)
Two features on BBC Sounds’ Downtime symphony! 27 March 2021: Mother Ivy – Train 13 March 2021: The Beating Birch – Mvt 1