Game Art Festival, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
Returning for its fifth year, the 2017 UCLA Game Art Festival will showcase the year's most cutting-edge videogames and interactive arts. The Game Art Festival is presented by the UCLA Game Lab in collaboration with the Hammer Museum. The event will feature than 50 playable games, tournaments, machinima and more. Come join us in a carnival-like atmosphere with food, drinks, huge projection screens, live music and a vibrant mix of celebrated games and art!
The 2017 UCLA Game Art Festival is made possible in part by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Gecko Ridemption, 2017 by Theo Triantafyllidis & Alex Rickett was presented in a cockfight tournament format, with participating champions being locked in a cage for each deathmatch and audience placing bets on their favorite players.