Live: Join us and former National Gallery curator David Jaffe, exploring Cezanne
Join the devs, Museum Curator David Jaffe and Paul Cézanne live on stream - Saturday 9th May 2020 at 8 PM BST/3 PM EST.
What to expect
Join us as we explore the work of Paul Cezzane in-game with Former National Gallery curator David Jaffe and answer any questions you may have.
Bio
David Jaffe, formally a senior curator at the National Gallery (London) started his career working at the Australian National Gallery, and later moved on to the J. Paul Getty Museum. Davids's most notable work was for the National Gallery of London where David worked as a senior curator for 14 years.
David has been involved with many exhibitions during his curation career, some of these include Impressionism, Titian, and Rubens. David now spends his time writing about Renaissance and Baroque art. Come and join us for a special live stream where we will explore the work of Cezanne with museum curator David Jaffe.
Q&A Stream With The Finsbury Park Deltics - Artist
Date: April 11th 2020 Day: Saturday Time: 8pm GMT / 3pm EST
Join some of the devs live on Stream with guest artist The Finsbury Park Deltics.
I have been drawing ever since I burst forth, urgent and confused, from a municipal bed into England. Initially, I doodled as a way of alleviating childhood angst; now I do it as a way of alleviating angst that’s all grown up and running around with scissors. Working in a variety of media, I parody mass culture by Read more
Date: April 4th 2020 Day: Saturday Time: 8pm GMT / 3pm EST
Join some of the devs live on Stream with guest artist Rosa Francesca.
Rosa Francesca is a digital artist from Leamington Spa, UK. Her work explores how we can make art and music more accessible to people with disabilities, utilising facial recognition and brain monitor technology. Her 3D computer-generated art, as a feature in Occupy White Walls, focuses on the female body, often with the theme of psychedelic body horror.
It has been almost a year since we last ran a mosaic contest and so we thought we would create one again using the updated 250+ color palette! Mosaics are unlocked at level 7 and allow a player to create in-game art.
Objective
Create a mosaic to the theme of 'social distancing'. The Stikipixels will shortlist several entries based on originality artist flair and overall 'wow factor'.
Dates
The competition will run from today (March 21st) until April 21st at midnight EST. Winners will be selected/voted on in May.
Prizes
There will be 5 unique winners. Prizes will include;
All entries must be submitted by midnight EST on April 21st.
Entries must be entirely made in-game.
You may enter up to 3 times as long as they are unique.
Mosaics must stay visible until at least June 2020
How to enter
Email DAISY@oww.io with the following information
Gallery name
Link to your entry (if not attached to the email)
Any additional information or captions
or
Post on social media and tag us your entry with one of the following tags and state '#QuarantineActivities' and your gallery name. Twitter - @whatisoww Instagram - @whatisoww Facebook @OccupyWhitewalls
We look forward to seeing all of the talented entries!
We were floored by the number and quality of submissions! You are a seriously creative bunch! After much deliberation and existential debate, the Stikipixels have chosen their top five favorite entries (we wanted to choose all of them but Daisy said no :( )
Check out the video for the top five winners and check out the entries here. [previewyoutube="RMSGdmuUbzU;full"] As an added bonus we awarded everyone who was kinetic enough to enter the contest the mask as well!
[previewyoutube="dUeWBpdI0wI;full"] January 1st - 2nd February.
Dear Friends, curators, and artists
It's time we say goodbye to 2019 - it was a hell of a year for OWW, lots of ups, downs, disconnects, and reconnects, but thanks to you, the awesome players, artists, and pixels, we prevailed. More awesomeness to come in 2020, SOON(TM).
To celebrate, we have decided to kick off the new year with a fun contest.
Objective
Create something super cool using any of the new assets released in the 'State of Mind' update. These can be;
Gifs
Videos
Screenshots
Dates
The competition will run from today (Jan 1st) until midnight EST on 2nd February. Winners will be selected/voted on in February.
Prizes
There will be 5 unique winners. Prizes will include;
A five of a kind Golden Armadillo hat.
A portal in the hall of fame at our official new art gallery 'phillycommon.'
Published in the newsletter, shared across social media, and featured on our streams.
All entries must be submitted by midnight EST on 2nd February.
Videos must not include copyrighted music that you do not own.
Entries must be entirely made in-game. (standard editing outside the game is permitted).
You may enter as many times as you like as long as they are unique.
How to enter
Email DAISY@oww.io with the following information
Gallery name
Link to your entry (if not attached to the email)
Any additional information or captions
or
Post on social media and tag us your entry with one of the following tags and state '#KineticNewYearContest' and your gallery name. Twitter - @whatisoww Instagram - @whatisoww Facebook @OccupyWhitewalls
We look forward to seeing what people can create! Stikipixels
Asset List The following assets were released during the State of Mind update and can be used in this contest. You don't have to use all assets, and you can use other assets not listed, as long as there is at least one asset from this list displaying. *Assets displayed only show one of many varieties, any color or size of these assets can be used and not only the ones displayed.
OWW 6.0 'State of Mind' Update
New Features/Content:
Kultura - Art is going global at Kultura, everything you needed to know and were afraid to ask about art in-game is now available online.
Inventory Search Bar - Still looking for that vendor item you bought? Now you can easily find it!
New Particle Gestures/Emojis … How do you feel today? … I feel Jellyfish! I feel like a triangle! New effects to spice up your discussions.
Passepartout - Enhance small paintings with a passepartout. 3 sizes and 4 colours available.
Two Additional Action Bars - Did you miss your favourite dance move because you had an art deco light? Well, now you can choreograph the perfect dance routine.
Holiday Assets - Kinetic New Year just arrived. The festive spirit floats around your head plus baubles, kinetic trees and more.
Sakura Effect - because who doesn’t want falling petals in their gallery
Fireworks - Celebrate in style with some amazing fireworks
Arctic Skybox - Because you can never have too many (unlocks at level 21)
Help Menu - Have you forgotten how to do things? Did you complete the tutorial under hypnosis? We are here for you … well, there is a text page to refresh your memory.
Improvements:
Faster gallery loading
First-person mode is now saved upon teleporting
Improved Aiming mechanism. Now it's much easier to interact/build/remove objects.
Improved shadow look and feel on medium
Updated snow effect
8x8 Art Deco floor carpet enhanced
Comments load faster than before
The max level bar is now less obtrusive
Fixed:
Multiple tutorial bug fixes
Deleting multiple objects now refund for each item
Occasional freeze when teleporting to galleries.
Objects no longer lose collisions after moving them
Registration issues
Favourite galleries bugs
Effects sound settings not working sometimes
Names in chat sometimes appearing in larger scale
StikiPixels London, December 2019
Leaked: OWW's First (but not last) DLC Pack
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It was only a year ago when a little known (but ambitious) indie MMO hit Steam, it’s been a year full of ups and downs (mostly ups) and OWW is a little less ‘little known’ yet more ambitious than ever.
To celebrate our first birthday we’re releasing our first-ever DLC pack. DLC pack includes:
The official soundtracks (17 tracks) in MP3 and FLAC formats + ‘secret’ bonus track ‘Electrify my soul’ (the one from the ads).
A collection of 5 masks (3 masks and 2 unique headphones) that will never, ever, be available elsewhere.
Special orange avatar background in chat and in-game social profile, in case the masks aren’t enough to stand out from the crowd.
A unique framed record vinyl asset that can be placed (almost) anywhere
Each DLC comes with a warm fuzzy feeling knowing you’ve helped the game, devs, and art-loving AI behind it to pay for coffee, cloud servers and to expand what games can be and do in society.
Thank you for supporting the Stikipixels and helping us grow the Artiverse one frog at a time.
