Generally on this blog I only post my work and news. But so many people follow this blog I decided I should use it to put some credit where credit is due.

Confession: I like games. Not all of them… but the ones I like I like A LOT. And loosely the game play comes out in my art. The only thing over the last decade that has taken up as much of my time as photography - is a handful of games.

Sometime in the mid 2000’s I had to give up Scrabble. I was studying word lists. It was out of control. I gave it up cold turkey.

Present day: there are a few games I play, especially since smart phones existed.

My favorite of all is a game called Uni War.  Some of my cube photos look like their maps. It should be on way more “best game lists”… fuck your tiny tower.

From wikipedia:

Uniwar is a turn-based strategy game with multiplayer online gameplay for up to eight players as well as a single-player campaign mode. The player’s goal in each level is to capture all of his opponent’s bases. For each base the player controls, he earns additional credits which can be spent constructing units such as tanks and helicopters.^[1] The game consists of twenty one single-player levels and three armies: Sapians (humans), Titans (machines), and Khralians (aliens).^[2] Each army, or race, includes 8 unit types, and each unit type has different degrees of mobility, attack strength, and defense. Special units such as the Sapian Engineer cannot attack or defend but have unique advantages such as the ability to re-program enemy units, effectively converting them to Sapiens unit. Attack is the best form of defence in the game, but in order to succeed at Uniwar players must employ strategies in order to use their limited resources effectively.^[3]

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It’s a bit like chess mixed with rudimentary WOW. Or something like that. Multiplayer sucks… one on one.

Kudos - whoever made this game.