Art and Games University (AGU) publishes video game research via educational videos, essays, and other content.
Art and Games University catalogues and analyzes the quantity, type, in-game meaning, and real-world art historical references of all art objects and cultural content found within the virtual worlds of video games. AGU explores the art and cultural content found in video games and has collected data from a diverse pool of games, from AAA to indie, with many systems sampled and decades of content scoured. To do so, over three hundred games have been documented through one hundred percent exploration and completion, and then the data was carefully compiled for many of these: with the list of documented and dissected games growing regularly. The research found the data and evaluation of art objects in games are under-studied, and is important to document.
Art and Games University is managed, written, and hosted by John Aaron Coulter. AGU is part of Sharks Eat Meat.
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