#ian endsley

[procedural-generation]

4Ever Transit Authority

Another game that was originally made as part of the Slow Game Jam, 4Ever Transit Ride takes you on bus trips through procedurally-generated cities.

Your interaction with the city is indirect and at a distance: you can choose when to transfer to another line or how much to slouch in your seat, but the buildings will be forever out of reach. Yet they still feel a lot more concrete than many other outside-the-window decorations, which I suspect is due to the entire city being generated. Even if you’ll never be able to touch that tower in the distance, it’s still there, in the same relation to the other buildings, until you move on to the next town.

https://turnfollow.itch.io/4ever-transit-authority

[tinysamm]

The player's role in Little Party is that of the observer. They have tasks and push story moments forward through their interactions, but as the mother, they are not an actor, but an audience. This reinforces the relationship the player character has with her daughter and her friends- she offers support and words of encouragement, but the pride she feels in her child comes from an understanding that she is merely watching her progeny's ideals and goals come to fruition (even if her child doesn't see this herself).

[fantasticanimal-blog]

Tomorrow I will be participating in Fantastic Animal, a multimedia work for chamber ensemble and still projections conceived and composed by Marissa Deitz as her exit project from the BMus program at Columbia College Chicago. The show features work by Carter Lodwick, Ian Endsley, Isabella Rotman, and Spencer Hawkes. Poster by Sam Alden. 

[brainframe]

Ian Endsley reversed the genders, made up names, and otherwise mildly fictionalize the story of his own conception at Brain Frame 11 on March 23rd, 2013.

Video thanks to Jack Wensel [editing], Tyson Torstensen [sound], Jenna Caravello [camera] and Ryan Gleeson [camera].

[brainframe]

Ian Endsley opened Brain Frame 6 (on May 23rd, 2012) with a grief-stricken, gently funny, and truly moving comic about a tortured artist, his long-distance girlfriend, and his unhealthy, dream-sequence inducing obsession with hot pockets. The 100+ pages of Fuck Great American Bagel were hand drawn for Ian's Brain Frame performance, and generously gifted to whoever grabbed them first after the show.

Video thanks to Jenna Caravello.