-
-
Nova Jiang - Orthogonal/Diagonal
Exhibition
Game Changers: Another Way to Play
7 Apr 2017 – 7 May 2017
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 20:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Strand
- WC2R 1LA
- London
- WC2R 1LA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 77a, 91 and 176, while the River Bus Service can be taken to Embankment and Savoy Piers.
- Temple, Covent Garden, Charing Cross and Embankment.
- Charing Cross, Waterloo and Blackfriars.
Discover how traditional forms of chess, billiards and mazes continue to influence designers making exciting new games today.
About
Running as an extension of Now Play This, Game Changers will provide an in-depth look at the creative process behind game design.
A timeline tracing how traditional forms of chess, billiards and mazes have evolved with a selection of contemporary examples – both physical and digital - will be on show for visitors to try, including:
Four regional variations of Orthogonal/Diagonal, Nova Jiang’s modified chess sets which showed at Now Play This in 2016. Inspired by traditional Bauhaus chess sets, the pieces’ physical shape indicates how they should move.
A playable installation of Zach Gage’s Really Bad Chess, a digital game that recreates chess with a random selection of pieces for each player.
Home Turf, by Ed Saperia, a distorted billiards table that combines the normal challenges of billiards with a deliberately difficult shape.
INKS by State of Play, an on-screen game within a physical pinball-style environment – derived from more traditional forms of billiards and bagatelle.
Maze, a challenging, two-player table-top maze game by sculptor Alexander Berchert.
