Off-Planet Dreams
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Off-Planet Dreams

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'The Dark Souls of Invisible Platformers' https://youtu.be/ZZFvh9Xjtrw With Off-Planet Dreams launch on Playdate Catalog, in many ways, the release of this game is a Full-Circle...
'The Dark Souls of Invisible Platformers' https://youtu.be/ZZFvh9Xjtrw With Off-Planet Dreams launch on Playdate Catalog, in many ways, the release of this game is a Full-Circle moment for me. OPD expresses an idea I’ve carried for seven years and brings closure to a little piece of my heart that had been lost.  Fantastic Arcade 2017 Indie games have long been my passion. I delight in seeing the creativity that a small team or single creator can push forward. That’s why I love the Playdate community so much! But before there was Playdate, there was Fantastic Arcade. FA was an annual showcase...
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Open Calls
ARTwork Collections Photography

Open Calls

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Years ago, I began wanting to develop my work enough to show in gallery events. This partially led to the development of ART7 and the...
Years ago, I began wanting to develop my work enough to show in gallery events. This partially led to the development of ART7 and the rest of the ART series on Playdate - in that case, I figured I could just make my own gallery. But still, a lot of the work I'm interested in making is fully in the realm of the physical. I spend time with friends every week at a local Art Night hosted at the Highland Collective here in Austin. It has been an amazing place to focus and/or not focus. To talk to other artists,...
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Playdate Camera Photowalk
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Playdate Camera Photowalk

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Tom Granger is a developer for the Playdate and has done what I had hoped to someday do - he has created the hardware and...
Tom Granger is a developer for the Playdate and has done what I had hoped to someday do - he has created the hardware and software to turn the Playdate into a camera! A la the Gameboy Camera before it, Tom's Playdate Camera project takes this little handheld system and vastly expands its capabilities. He was kind enough to share test shots used in the production of the camera and we have included them as an exhibit/photowalk in the new ART tOO for July 2023 The ART tOO is free to download and explore. The shots  Tom provided were cropped...
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I Only Exist in Pieces
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I Only Exist in Pieces

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Importantly - 256x144px Until I am put back together This piece was made intentionally bigger than what can be displayed in Pulp on the Playdate....
Importantly - 256x144px Until I am put back together This piece was made intentionally bigger than what can be displayed in Pulp on the Playdate. I have it as the Entry work to the Gallery proper in ART& as a statement and to begin to bend expectations for a videogame art gallery. As you find fragments scattered about the grounds, you will fill in holes in its tapestry and uncover a message, specifically: 'I Only Exist in Pieces.. Until I am put back together' This is the Zilker Park Tree of Lights in Austin, TX. Now eclipsed somewhat in fame...
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ART& – Loss & Interpretation
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ART& – Loss & Interpretation

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ART in Translation across Medium During development of ART& I was walking through a massive MC Escher exhibit in Houston. So many of his works...
ART in Translation across Medium During development of ART& I was walking through a massive MC Escher exhibit in Houston. So many of his works in black and white seemed like they would translate delightfully into low-res 1-bit, but that would fundamentally change what they are, even while bringing them to a new platform. With Escher, the detail and craft embody the message, but there is a loss in translating mediums. The work is fundamentally a different thing even were the artist themselves to craft it.  Running through my mind while viewing a master's work and seeing the arc of...
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ART&.. More for Playdate Catalog – Credits
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ART&.. More for Playdate Catalog – Credits

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Contributors Ron Lent - Grand stairway installation, 1st flor Robyn Heffler - Potrait art, Whine & Cheese exhibit, sewers Teneyenet - Kyle Saldana - Austin...
Contributors Ron Lent - Grand stairway installation, 1st flor Robyn Heffler - Potrait art, Whine & Cheese exhibit, sewers Teneyenet - Kyle Saldana - Austin artist, 1st floor and 'Fabric Study' theater Jerry Verhoeven - concepted/authored the Senses and the Crows Scenic Route Software - Post Post Hero exhibit, 2nd floor PizzaFuelDev - Dungeons and Doggos comic excerpts, 2nd floor Sparrow Solitaire - Mac Vogelsang & Matt Sephton - Sparrow Solitaire exhibit/installation, 2nd floor Fat Nose Games - Character Design 'Sculptures', 2nd floor Pixel Ghost - Pirate Ship installation and artworks Scott Hall - Tile Hill arcade game XaniaLasagna -...
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Dungeon Zero
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Dungeon Zero

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https://youtu.be/bjIbBWGffog At the beginning of the pandemic, stuck at home, I needed something to sink my teeth into. As a video editor, I had always...
https://youtu.be/bjIbBWGffog At the beginning of the pandemic, stuck at home, I needed something to sink my teeth into. As a video editor, I had always wanted to get deeper into understanding and recording audio. So I looped my friend William Monroe into creating a podcast with me centered around the game AI Dungeon The concept was to record short to medium length playthroughs of AI-guided roleplaying sessions. Then, to put a little more production into the project, Misty Witten came on to do narration and characters as she was working on finding her voice as a voice actor. I was...
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Wren Wild
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Wren Wild

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Dance is Movement Art and I have been practicing Movement Art with my partner Misty Witten for years in and around Austin. We dance socially,...
Dance is Movement Art and I have been practicing Movement Art with my partner Misty Witten for years in and around Austin. We dance socially, we perform and we teach. We tell stories through our form of Dance that resonate physically and emotionally. We seek to inspire, to empower and to move People, Our Audience, You. We dance Aerial Dance Fusion - our own style of fusion that mixes flow and connection with tricks, transitions and aerials. Wren Wild has been on a hiatus for much of the pandemic, Dance is a calling as much as any other and we...
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The Balloon Collective
ARTwork Balloons Collections Photography

The Balloon Collective

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The Balloon Collective has kept me in the Art-making business since I started helping out at SXSW 2018. We do small-large scale decor pieces -...
The Balloon Collective has kept me in the Art-making business since I started helping out at SXSW 2018. We do small-large scale decor pieces - Garlands of Organic, Ceilings, Streamers, Backdrops and Balloon Sculpture (Nate the Great is amazing at this). Below are some pictures of the work. Follow @TheBalloonCollective for more! [gallery_p_gallery id=1]
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ART7 Submissions and Credits
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ART7 Submissions and Credits

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Welcome to ART7 1-bit Gallery! I hope you Have or Are enjoying the gallery. The focus for this first show has been to include art...
Welcome to ART7 1-bit Gallery! I hope you Have or Are enjoying the gallery. The focus for this first show has been to include art from members of the Playdate community, art from friends, partners, and myself! What do you do when you first open a Gallery? Invite all of your friends to show of course! Now, if you have enjoyed the ART7 and would like to be featured in the NEXT show (Audio or Visual), get in contact with me for details! [contact-form to="dtw.ledbetter@gmail.com" subject="ART7 Submission"][contact-field label="Name" type="name" required="1"][contact-field label="Email" type="email" required="1"][contact-field label="Message" type="textarea"][/contact-form]   ART-O-Ween: Night at the...
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