Yearly, round about now, indie Japanese video games retailer/shopfront Meteor holds an exhibition known as Famicase. The objective? Showcase the design and illustration of cartridge artwork for video games that don’t exist. Artists from everywhere in the world participate, sending of their submissions, and yearly Meteor choose the most effective and show them dwell of their retailer.
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Given the exhibition is in Tokyo, nevertheless, most of you studying aren’t in a position to go test it out. Regardless of! Meteor are additionally type sufficient to submit the submissions yearly on their web site, leaving us free to check out simply how unbelievable each single one in all them are
Like I’ve ever 12 months for what looks like 1000 years, this submit goes to spotlight a few of my favorite entries for the 12 months, a few of them from native artists, a few of them from worldwide ones, and a few of them even from Kotaku readers who had been type sufficient to ship in their very own profitable submissions.
If you wish to take a look at each entry, there’s a gallery website right here, whereas you can even purchase a beautiful e book of the entire assortment from Meteor for ¥1430 (or round USD$10). Anyway, with out additional ado: the submissions!
I ought to be aware right here on the finish that whereas the entire level of Famicase is to think about video games that don’t exist, and with the deal with merely making items of cartridge artwork that appears good hanging on a wall (or displayed in a e book), that doesn’t imply that these video games don’t get made. As we’ve lined beforehand, the A Game By Its Cover jam takes place every year, and asks developers to turn some of these concepts into playable, actual games.
