CCP Games have today announced that their online game EVE Online, which is celebrating its decade long run has been picked up by The Museum of Modern Art as one of the first fourteen games to enter its Applied Design collection. The famous New York City museum’s new Applied Design installation opened to the public recently and will run through January 31, 2014. It showcases a collection of video games selected by a panel of industry experts, amongst other media and artwork.
For its portion of the exhibit, CCP Games created a “day in the universe” visual experience that brings the museum-goer on a journey in the EVE Universe through the everyday actions of some of the more than 500,000 inhabitants from 230 countries around the world. A call for submissions of personal gameplay recordings from EVE players yielded genuine, real-life gaming experiences from a single day in EVE history that were then combined with 1.2 terabytes of data from EVE’s server databases and Big Data storage into a larger narrative representing the massive sci-fi game and player interactions within it.
Torfi Frans Olafsson | Creative Director, EVE IP Development Division
We couldn’t imagine telling the story of the EVE Universe without putting our players and their actions front and center. The exhibition was such an inspiring project to work on. Seeing our universe under the same roof as so many other legendary works we love makes that collaboration an even more meaningful honor.
Check out their initial crowdsourcing effort HERE.
