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Gaming as Art: The Unfinished Swan
Tech Digest — The Unfinished Swan is a forthcoming indie game / tech demo, made in XNA by a chap called Ian Dallas. It's set in a completely white world, and you're equipped with splats of black paint which you use to view the area around you. The goal is to find your way to the ...

The Unfinished Swan - first person painting game
MAKE Magazine — The Unfinished Swan is a first-person painting game set in an entirely white world. Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden... I don't play many video games but this one looks amazing. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!

The Unfinished Swan: beautiful monochrome exploration game
Boing Boing Gadgets — This tech demo for the upcoming Wii game The Unfinished Swan is certainly visually striking: it takes place in an invisible, monochrome world that can only be discovered by splattering its contours with blobs of ink. And it definitely deserves to get buzz. Unsurprisingly, though, it mostly seems to excite people who don't actually play many video games: those who do can't help but notice that it doesn't look like there's much actual game there. It's early days yet, of course, and I'm excited by the possibilities — imagine some sort of murder mystery set in such a world, where ...