Art Games Spotlight: flOw, Coactive, and Orisinal

Welcome once again to Art Games Spotlight here at Modern Art Quotes. Days of scouring the web (and hours of play) searching for the most creative, ingenious, abstract, free and fun games resulted in the following three entries: (Click on the title of the game to go to the website and play.)

1. flOw, by thatgamecompany: An awesomely cool game where you start as a small organism in a layered sea of sorts. You can travel up and down through the depths of the layers, eating smaller matter and other organisms, evolving or getting eaten all the while. I could play this game for hours endlessly, the deceptively simple game-play is very fun and very addicting; Almost soothing in a primordial kind of way. Very easy and very fun with endless replay value. Play the pc version of flOw by clicking on the link above.

2. Coactive, by Danny Adler: This is an interactive music/art game. A very cool and hypnotizing experience; you use interactive shapes of various design that each correspond with a sound element, to create music and art. Start and stop these shaped musical options, mix and match various layers of sound. Fascinating and meditative, keep going with it for a minute to really get the feel, and you'll lose an hour or two.

3. Orisinal games, by Ferry Halim: These games are short and sweet, but very well designed. Easy, fun and with good art, you'll have fun exploring the 60 plus games from this talented designer.

Have fun recharging your creative juices by playing these great games, (I did). Especially the first game flOw, what a wierd experience that game is, a very fun wierd experience. Let me leave you with a quote from Irish painter Francis Bacon about art as a game:

"You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all."

-Francis Bacon