Everything I Do is Art, But Nothing I Do Makes Any Difference, Part II Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gallery is the second in a series of playable levels for the popular first-person shooter video game, Half Life 2. This version was made for the 2006 Undergraduate Exhibition at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The entire 50,000+ square foot gallery has been meticulously modeled, along with some of the artwork from the show.
Sod is an extreme modification or "hack" of id Software’s action game Wolfenstein 3D, in which the goal was to escape from a Nazi dungeon. In Sod, Wolfenstein 3D’s representational renderings (considered state-of-the art at the time of the game’s release in 1992) have been replaced by pure geometrical forms in a limited palette of black, white and gray. The result is a game space that is loosely architectural and extremely disorienting; it is easy to get lost, and it can be difficult to distinguish the walls from the targets one is supposed to shoot. Paesmans and Heemskerk complement the game-play difficulties with a cryptic interface (setting game preferences is no easy task!) and tongue-in-cheek game instructions along the lines of "If you are tough, press N. If not, press Y daintily." With its stark elegance, Sod offers a compelling alternative to the computer game industry’s mindless pursuit of representational realism.
D-Day: Normandy is a first-person shooter set across all theatres of war in World War II, originally developed as a Quake II mod in 1999 and later released as a free standalone game.