From Edge: a short interview with New York based artist and game designer Mark Essen, whose game Flywrench will appear at the New Museum‘s The Generational: Younger Than Jesus. An excerpt:
I’ve gotten more respect, and people know me now more, which has been useful and good. I’m getting game gigs, and that kind of stuff. For this show in particular, everyone has a lot to prove. A lot of people are ragging on how everyone’s just a young artist who really doesn’t know what they’re doing yet, and that maybe they don’t deserve that kind of attention. And yeah, it’s a different crowd to the gamer crowd, and maybe not as fun. I don’t know that I fit in. But I think that’s fine.
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[...] credited game artist Mark Essen (a.k.a. Messhof) as being his “idol,” so it wasn’t surprising how many of Messhof’s games [...]