http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/echochrome http://io9.com/tag/echochrome

A lot of the history of games is the quest for more and more realistic worlds - from Donkey Kong to Doom to Gears of War - we've been progressing asymptotically toward the mythical photo-real total simulation, the fabled interactive movie. But maybe as we're reaching that goal, the goal changes. With new games like Echochrome, which was shown off at the Game Developers Conference yesterday, you can see developers entering a post-realist era - the way Impressionism and Surrealism followed Realism. They're moving beyond simple reality simulation into something more impressionist or surreal - maybe the future is not in simulating reality, but in playing with the rules that define it? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=359722&view=rss&microfeed=true