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gamma3d postmortDecember 18 2008

When Kokoromi announced gamma3d, we honestly didn’t know whether our design challenge, anaglyphic stereoscopy (which is - binocular display using superimposed red and cyan images), could actually be integral to a game.   We issued the challenge to ourselves and other creators to explore whether the technique could produce truly original gameplay - interactions not possible to achieve in any other manner.

Based on the submitted games, our answer could be “yes, but extremely rarely, and only with carefully controlled and limited visuals.”   Namely, of the games we received, only The Depths To Which I Sink was impossible to play without the anaglyphic red-cyan glasses.   Depths strips away all other depth-of-scene cues, like scale, horizon, and parallax, and disguises the anaglyphic color palette in simple non-representational graphics.  In other words, if you don’t wear the 3D glasses, the rectangular game world of Depths is completely flat.

But stereoscopic design techniques are deeply dependent on the specific hardware and software used to deliver the illusion, which means each is unlikely to become widespread.  The gameplay innovation of each would be limited to that particular interface, and even then, there doesn�

THANKS FOR A GREAT NIGHT, EVERYONE!November 22 2008

HERE ARE THE GAMES.

Yesterday’s world of stereoscopy, TONIGHT!November 19 2008

GAMMA 3D IS TONIGHT!  ONE NIGHT ONLY!
So, see you at the SAT!  

1195 St-Laurent Blvd., Montreal

Starts at 9pm, Costs $5.  (Unless you have a MIGS badge, in which case it starts at 7 and is FREE.)

Meanwhile, have an exclusive look at Kokoromi/Polytron’s gamma 3d entry, super HYPERCUBE, featured on brand-new boingboing games site, offworld.

Montreal notices kokoromi existsNovember 15 2008

gamma3d got a nice (big) pre-event write-up in a local weekly, the Montreal Mirror.   We’re more excited about this than you might expect, because in the three years of our existence (!!), we’ve garnered a lot more international media coverage than local, even though our original mission was to promote games as art in Montreal.  So!  Looks like those tides are finally turning.

Check it out.   And see you there.

Día de los vivosNovember 1 2008

Today, November 1st, 2008, Kokoromi has battled maddening ViaRail internet connections, poorly soft-boiled duck eggs, and the siren call of LittleBigPlanet, to emerge scathed, yet bearing our selection of red/blue stereoscopic games!

GAMMA 2008 :: gamma3d

AltiToad - Tim Winsky and Johanna Arcand
BlottoBrace - Antony Blackett, Corie Geerders, and James Everett
The Depths To Which I Sink - Jim McGinley
Fireflies - Lee Byron and Joannie Wu
Paper Moon - Infinite Ammo (Alec Holowka, Christopher Lobay, Ian Holowka, Katie De Sousa) with Adam Saltsman
super HYPERCUBE - Kokoromi/Polytron

These games shall be offered for your playing pleasure on November 19th, 2008.  That’s 7pm at the SAT if you’re a lucky MIGS-goer, and 9pm for the rest o’ ye!   See you in 18 days!

And happy birthday Phil!