.:: The Graveyard, Tale of Tales ::.

Date: June 2019
Location: Dundee, Scotland
www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/videogames
Tale of Tales is made up of pioneering artist duo Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn, a developer of experimental videogames and interactive art influential within videogame communities. Between 2003 and 2015, the duo experimented with the idea that videogames could extend their digital practice, and could be used to express themes beyond traditional action-oriented game mechanics and structures. The pair used games as an alternative form of interactive art – to tell stories through the design of environments, animation, colour and lighting that immerse the player in a virtual experience. The Graveyard embodies this concept, featuring a character and objective vastly different to the majority of other games. You play an elderly woman walking through a cemetery to sit on a bench. But, moving at a realistically slow pace, your focus is on the atmosphere and meaning of the game.