Yearly, round about now, indie Japanese video games retailer/shopfront Meteor holds an exhibition known as Famicase. The objective? Showcase the design and illustration of cartridge artwork for video games that don’t exist. Artists from everywhere in the world participate, sending of their submissions, and yearly Meteor decide the perfect and show them reside of their retailer.
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Given the exhibition is in Tokyo, nonetheless, most of you studying aren’t capable of go test it out. Regardless of! Meteor are additionally variety sufficient to submit the submissions yearly on their web site, leaving us free to check out simply how unimaginable each single certainly one of them are
Like I’ve ever 12 months for what looks like 1000 years, this submit goes to spotlight a few of my favorite entries for the 12 months, a few of them from native artists, a few of them from worldwide ones, and a few of them even from Kotaku readers who had been variety sufficient to ship in their very own profitable submissions.
If you wish to take a look at each entry, there’s a gallery website right here, whereas you can too purchase a beautiful e-book of the entire assortment from Meteor for ¥1430 (or round USD$10). Anyway, with out additional ado: the submissions!
I ought to notice right here on the finish that whereas the entire level of Famicase is to think about video games that don’t exist, and with the give attention to merely making items of cartridge artwork that appears good hanging on a wall (or displayed in a e-book), that doesn’t imply that these video games don’t get made. As we’ve lined beforehand, the A Recreation By Its Cowl jam takes place yearly, and asks builders to show a few of these ideas into playable, precise video games.
