The following post originally appeared on attractmo.de, on August 8, 2012.
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I love Instagram. A lot. It makes cool stuff look even cooler. Like video games. And here are some examples.
The first batch is from Kris Piotrowski, creative director at Capybara Games. Who lives the kind of life that most of us can only dream of, like time spent in Japan, digging through obscure Famicom carts…
… Or being part of internal game jams, producing (or simply playing) awesome looking stuff that the rest of the world will never get to touch…
Kris is also the master of Instagraming screenshots. Here he brilliantly captures the overwhelming sense of hopelessness that DayZ is all about…
But Kris has company in this area. Like Nathan Vella, his big boss at Capy. Here’s Nathan’s take on Journey…
Though as others have demonstrated, thatgamecompany’s latest was almost made for Instagram. Yet another example, courtesy of Israel Sundseth…
The same could be said about Shadow of the Colossus. After all these years, it’s still just as beautiful…
Meanwhile, back in Japan, we have Sakamoto Kyoju’s latest release, which James Mielke, a former editor of mine and currently a producer at Q Games, recently picked up…
Fellow Attract Mode collective cohort superbrothers is into iOS photography as well. And Sword & Sworcery is another infinitely Instagram-able game, but his pics are somehow better than everyone else’s…
I’m especially fond of this one; really brings out the Seventh Seal undertones that the game is dripping with…
Just so you know, modern titles aren’t the only things that look great via Instagram. When it comes to the classics, no one does it better than Lamar Abrams…
Aside from various Mega Man screen captures, his feed is mostly a place to post his illustrations, which are sometimes game-related. Here I discovered Lamar’s love for the ultra obscure Genesis shump Arrow Flash, which I dig as well…
Lamar is also hella funny. Like take on Sonic with his one-off sidekicks, from his very first arcade, for example…
And here we have a behind the scenes look at what would become his totally awesome contribution to Comics Vs. Games…
What’s this? A sneak peak of an upcoming print for the Attract Mode shop? Maybe…
BTW, in addition to Instagram, I’m also a superfan of InstaCRT. Basically, it takes any iPhone image and sends it to Sweden, where it’s displayed on a very tiny CRT monitor; another camera then takes a picture of what’s displayed, which is sent it back to your iPhone. And the results speak for themselves…
