Fast paced, flashing lights, guns blazing or NPC’s chasing you down. Gaming is about action, stimulation and excitement. Imagine then being transfixed by a still image that conveys all of that without moving or flashing. It speaks to you as a gamer because it touches on those iconic figures from your other life behind the keyboard or console. You may have seen art like this on: ABC’s Good Game, the EB Games Expo or Jumpbutton magazine and if you haven’t. Allow me to introduce Rebecca Murphy an upcoming Australian artist who’s love of gaming is only rivaled by her love of art.
Seen above, Fruit Ninja versus Angry Birds is just one such artwork which presents just enough of each game for the familiar to draw you in to the world that Rebecca has created, a world that spans popular culture like; Carebears, Voltron and my little Pony and the gaming we know and love in Super Mario, Tetris, Portal and Frogger. This world and website draws you in with familiar faces and for the men (and some women. lets not be sexist!) voluptuous ladies guide us through political stances, causes, the macabre and the monstrous. If you aren’t careful you can get lost and if you’re even less careful. You might not mind…