The game "Everything" that can become the first time in the history of video games, becoming a candidate for the Academy Award nomination.
Bear, lion, bird, grass, grasshopper, bacteria! Barrels, trees, balloons, islands, planets, galaxies! " Realistic simulation game " Everything "that you can transfer to "everything" can be played on the short film festival VIS Vienna Shorts which selects candidates for the Academy Awards - won the Jury Prize. It was certified as Academy Award short film animation film category qualification.
On the Vienna Shorts Festival page, comments from the judges are written as follows.
The "Animation Jury Award" is given to this movie that transcends entertainment with a strong, poetic, philosophical theme. It includes important political statements, including melting our ego and boosting the view of the world from a new perspective, and it also has a very educational role.
From VIS Vienna Shorts
"Everything" of the game for PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation 4 is a work by Ireland artist/film director, David O'Reilly. Looking at the video, artistic seems to be more expensive than gaming, but that should be that O'Reilly was responsible for the game scene of the movie ' her / the world in the world ', as well as a pioneer of these games It is famous as the creator of the game "Mountain".
"Conscious all creatures think about themselves" "Define something is the position of the viewpoint to see it" "Watch with a microscope, see with the naked eye, with a telescope, It is not degree and the point of view is different ", the narration by British philosopher Alan Watts gives" gazing point "to the game nature of this work, this work that is troublesome about what to do for certain people surely We have succeeded in giving guidelines to them. At the same time, the game itself interactively complements what Watts is talking about.
I do not know yet whether "Everything" will be an Academy Award David O'Reilly work, but this feat may make more interest in the artistic nature of the game entertainment in the future.
