Entertainment | Gaming
Project: Design Media Arts at UCLA
Project: Design Media Arts at UCLA
The last couple of years within the gaming industry have presented some interesting new ideas on how we play with our environments:

Pikmin
Year: 2001
Company: Nintendo
Platform: GameCube
www.pikmin.com
A game whose concept revolved around an alien planet in which the player coordinated behavior of the native elemental, plant-like creatures of the same title to aid in the retrieval of spaceship parts.
+ see Wiki article
+ view video clip
Katamari Damacy
Year: 2004
Company: Namco
Platform: Playstation 2
katamari.namco.com
As a character called the "Prince," players collect objects from Earth to create new stars in space by rolling a "katamari." The process of accumulating virtually everything visible in the world with the katamari happens through a kind of snowball effect.
+ see Wiki article
+ view video clip
Spore
Year: (not yet released)
Company: EA Games
Platform: PC
www.spore.com
Designed by Will Wright (best known for creating the Sims series), Spore is an evolutionary game that oversees development and progression of a player-generated species across multiple stages, from the molecular phase to that of realizing civilization.
+ see Wiki article
+ view video clip

Pikmin
Year: 2001
Company: Nintendo
Platform: GameCube
www.pikmin.com
A game whose concept revolved around an alien planet in which the player coordinated behavior of the native elemental, plant-like creatures of the same title to aid in the retrieval of spaceship parts.
+ see Wiki article
+ view video clip

Katamari Damacy
Year: 2004
Company: Namco
Platform: Playstation 2
katamari.namco.com
As a character called the "Prince," players collect objects from Earth to create new stars in space by rolling a "katamari." The process of accumulating virtually everything visible in the world with the katamari happens through a kind of snowball effect.
+ see Wiki article
+ view video clip

Spore
Year: (not yet released)
Company: EA Games
Platform: PC
www.spore.com
Designed by Will Wright (best known for creating the Sims series), Spore is an evolutionary game that oversees development and progression of a player-generated species across multiple stages, from the molecular phase to that of realizing civilization.
+ see Wiki article
+ view video clip