Art Fart

April 18th, 2008 by fish

About 2 weeks ago i was invited to give a presentation at this big serious professional mini-conference called Interface(s) held and organized by SAT, the venue where we have our GAMMA events. Anyway. In true indie fashion, i was kinda drunk and said a lot of silly things. Watch me blame art for the ills of the industry, give a metaphorical blowjob to Cactus and generally mispronounce almost everything i said. Also, swearwords!

The talk can be viewed online in its entirety right here. Ignore the lengthy french intro, the talk itself is all in english. With a funny accent. You can also watch the other presentations here.

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Comments 8

  1. Nick Sheets wrote:

    Fish is a great speaker; definitely gave me inspiration to start working on my new-ish project again. Proud to still be in the basement.

    Posted 18 Apr 2008 at 1:14 pm
  2. LaughinCrow wrote:

    Great talk I agree with almost everything you said. But I do believe that other great games, such as Shadow of the Colossus, can have a lot of work spent in art, but still be great. It makes a difference how you use what you have available.

    I have no basement, does a dark room still work?

    Posted 18 Apr 2008 at 3:55 pm
  3. Cindy wrote:

    Ha ha… I love that photo. Is that phantom evil Phil coming up the left side?

    Posted 19 Apr 2008 at 9:18 pm
  4. Mark Johns wrote:

    Hmm, can’t get the video to play.

    Posted 20 Apr 2008 at 7:19 pm
  5. Cindy wrote:

    Maybe they fixed it…in any case, I couldn’t run it either, but just got it to play from here: http://www.interfacesmontreal.org/public/video/2008/conf4_jeu/08_conf4_phil_fish.mov

    Posted 21 Apr 2008 at 1:08 pm
  6. cactus wrote:

    Haha, thanks for the metaphorical sexual favours. If you ever see any fish in my future games, you can be sure to know that I was thinking of you while drawing them

    Posted 23 Apr 2008 at 2:34 pm
  7. cactus wrote:

    Oh, and the presentation was very interesting. Gave me a new perspective on game graphics.

    Posted 23 Apr 2008 at 2:38 pm
  8. ori wrote:

    will we have any FEZ update? It drives me crazy, I can’t do anything but wait…

    Posted 25 Apr 2008 at 3:52 am

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  1. From Lithium Leaf on 18 Apr 2008 at 3:46 pm

    Aim Low: What The Industry Can Learn From The Indies…

    I found this piece of greatness while reading the Kokomori Collective’s Site. Member Phil Fish (most well-known for Fez) recently did a talk at a conference known as Iterface(s), held where the Collective organizes it’s GAMMA events. In the Kokomori …

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