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| Veronika Tzekova, LEGOed LUDO, 2013 |
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| Veronika Tzekova, LEGOed LUDO, 2013 |
Friday, June 28, 2013
Fused Games: LEGOed LUDO, 2013
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Fused Games: LEGOed Tic-tac-toe, 2013
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| Veronika Tzekova, LEGOed Tic-tac-toe (1x1), 2013 |
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| Veronika Tzekova, LEGOed Tic-tac-toe (1x4), 2013 |
And puzzled again, this time by LEGO.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Fused Games: Slider Puzzled Tic-tac-toe, 2013
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| Veronika Tzekova, Slider Puzzled Tic-tac-toe, 2013 |
The familiar tic-tac-toe gets puzzled again.
The game is for two players and combines the rules and goals
of the tic-tac-toe and the basics of the slider puzzle. The goal is as in the classic
tic-tac-toe to arrange 3 of one’s sign in a row (vertical, horizontal,
diagonal). The player who arranges the row first wins. In order to place his
symbol a player can move all squares of the slider but eventually should keep
the composition he started with, plus the newly added symbol. The”X” starts
first placing his symbol and leaving any other “X”s or “O”s out of the 3x3
grid. The top left of the 3x3 grid is the top left of the slider.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Fused Games: Peg Mosaiced Tic-tac-toe, 2013
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| Veronika Tzekova, Peg Mosaiced Tic-tac-toe, 2013 |
Monday, June 24, 2013
Fused Games: Diced Tic-tac-toe #3, 2013
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| Veronika Tzekova, Diced Tic-tac-toe #3, 2013 |
9 cubes are arranged in 3x3 grid. Each cube has two sides
indicating “X”, two indicating “O” and two empty ones. At the beginning all
cubes are placed with empty side on top.
The goal is as in the classic tic-tac-toe to arrange 3 of
one’s sign in a row (vertical, horizontal, diagonal). The player who arranges
the row first wins.
The Playing Cards Dice sets consists of:
- Two sets each designed as side of the traditional six sided dice with dots from 1-6. One of the diced sets has bigger dots, one smaller dots.
- Two aces, one indicating “X” and one indicating “O”.
- The players through the XO Dice to decide who is playing with the “X” and who is playing with the “O”. Than the players play in turns with the “X”.
The players place cards one after each other. The “X” player
places a card first at the beginning. The one with the stronger card takes both
cards and makes a move. Each move consists of rotations of a single cube in a
single direction equal to the sum of both cards.
If a player has the ace with its own sign can make a two
moves.
If a player has the ace with the opponent sign can make a
move with a cube with the sign of the opponent on the top. The aces a stronger
than the cards with the dots. “X” ace beats “O” ace.
When the first seven
cards are over the game continues with the cards each player collected. If a
player has not collected any cards, loses the game and the game is over.
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Fused Games: Diced Tic-tac-toe #2, 2013
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| Veronika Tzekova, Diced Tic-tac-toe #2, 2013 |
As a table game tic-tac-toe often meats the coasters…
the tic-tac-toe is CHAlleNGED by a CHAlleNGED dice = Diced Tic-tac-toe #2
9 cubes are arranged in 3x3 grid.
Each cube has two sides indicating “X”, two indicating “O” and two empty ones.
At the beginning all cubes are placed with empty side on top.
The goal is as in the classic
tic-tac-toe to arrange 3 of one’s sign in a row (vertical, horizontal,
diagonal). The player who arranges the row first wins.
The Coaster Dice consists of 6 coasters each designed as side of the traditional 6 sided
dice with dots from 1-6. The players shuffle the coasters and deal them as
cards: 3 to each player. To make a move each player pulls on of his/her coasters
and rotates a cube in one direction so many times as the dots on the coaster
indicate. The players deal the cards/coasters in turn when all of them are
used.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Fused Games: Diced Tic-tac-toe #1, 2013
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| Veronika Tzekova, Diced Tic-tac-toe #1, 2013 |
The familiar tic-tac-toe game, once got CHAlleNGED by
getting 3D and second by fusing the original rules with rolling of a customized
dice.
Nine cubes are arranged in 3x3 grid. Each cube has two sides
indicating “X”, two indicating “O” and two empty ones. At the beginning all
cubes are placed with empty side on top.
The XO Dice has six sides, as three are indicating “X” and three
“O”.
The goal is as in the classic tic-tac-toe to arrange 3 of one’s
sign in a row (vertical, horizontal, diagonal). The player who arranges the row
first wins.
Players roll the dice in turns.
The first indication of the dice decides the signs with
which each of the players will play. For example: player A throws, and “X” is
indicated. Player A makes move when X is indicated, and player B when “O” is
indicated.
Each move is only one turn of a single cube in any desired
direction.
And to make the
experience more versatile and offer more material for philosophical
speculations on how this represents reality two version can be played.
Version I: When the opponent sign is indicated by
the dice, one can move a cube with the opponent sign on top. If not skips move.
Version II: When the
opponent sign is indicated by the dice, the opponent is entitled to make a
move. The player is forced to play in favor of the opponent.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Fused Games: The Jigsawpuzzled Tic-tac-toe, 2012
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| Veronika Tzekova, Fused Games/ The Jigsawpuzzled Tic-tac-toe, 2012 |
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| Veronika Tzekova, Fused Games/ The Jigsawpuzzled Tic-tac-toe, 2012 |
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| Veronika Tzekova, Fused Games/ The Jigsawpuzzled Tic-tac-toe, 2012 |
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| Veronika Tzekova, Fused Games/ The Jigsawpuzzled Tic-tac-toe, 2012, magnetic version |
Fused Games: The Rubik Cubed Tic-tac-toe , 2012
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| Veronika Tzekova, Fused Games/ The Rubik Cubed Tic-tac-toe, 2012 |
The original Rubik Cube is once hacked by making it only in
three colors (2 sides each) and fused with another game by marking two sides
with X’s and two with O’s and leaving two in plain color. The goal is to use
one of the plain colored sides as a board to play tic-tac-toe by two players.
It is possible I tried it!(but will be politically wise to make
friends with the Rubik Cube first:))
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Space Appropriator #4/ TT Linja
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| Veronika Tzekova, Space Appropriator #4/ TT Linja, 2013 |
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| Veronika Tzekova, Space Appropriator #4/ TT Linja, 2013 |
FOOOOTBALLLL
FOOOOTBALLLL
a land art
installation and a group performance by
Veronika
Tzekova
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| Veronika Tzekova/ FOOOOTBALLLL, the pitch outlines |
FOOOOTBALLLL
is a land art installation and a group performance.
The shape
of the FOOOOTBALLLL pitch is achieved from the basis of the original
football field to which perpendicularly is added a second identical
one. The ball remains one, the new configuration of the game results
in the number of teams being doubled and there are now four goal
lines instead of two. The possibilities to score are tripled as are
the number of opponents. The level of difficulty is increased but so
are the opportunities. The original rules of the games remain, but
new strategies can be applied. The rules a kept with slight
adjustments because of the multiplied number of teams.
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| Veronika Tzekova/ FOOOOTBALLLL, the pitch outlines |
THE HISTORY
The
FOOOOTBALLLL performance model was licensed and realized so far two
times in 2012.
POLAND
The first
ever FOOOOTBALLLL pitch was created in Citadela park in Poznan,
Poland in September 2012 as the field overall size estimated 90 by 90
meters. The first FOOOOTBALLLL group performance was between four
local armature football teams. The project was produced in
cooperation with FC Lech Poznan and Nastawnia Assosiation and
included in the accompanying program of Mediations Biennale, Poznan,
Poland.
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| Veronika Tzekova/ FOOOOTBALLLL, Poznan, Poland, 2012 |
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| Veronika Tzekova/ FOOOOTBALLLL, Poznan, Poland, 2012 |
BULGARIA
Later in
2012, the first ever FOOOOTBALLLL on a stadium was created in
Plovdiv, Bulgaria as the overall size of the pitch estimated 65 by 65
meters. The group performance was between the four football teams of
the city of Plovdiv: Botev, Lokomotiv, Spartak and Maritsa.
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| Veronika Tzekova, FOOOOTBALLLL, Plovdiv,Bulgaria, 2012 |
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| Veronika Tzekova, FOOOOTBALLLL, Plovdiv,Bulgaria, 2012 |
The
question: “Why four teams?” is always hovering in the air when
FOOOOTBALLLL is discussed. The originality of the design, the mixture
of familiar and strange in the setup of the game creates new
challenges and the participants exercise physically, mentally and
socially playing FOOOOTBALLLL. FOOOOTBALLLL is also a tool to bring
together and establish relationship between groups genuinely divided
for any reason: physically, politically, philosophically, socially,
etc.
The
participants and viewers are strongly encouraged to perceive the game
beyond the original and see it as metaphor for life and focus on the
multiple opportunities and fearlessly face the numerous difficulties
accompanying them. Playing FOOOOTBALLLL questions metaphorically
individual positioning in society, choices, social interactivity and
exchanges, and provokes new realms of communication and competition.
Playing the game is important, but yet it is not crucial. The
important is that people start thinking in a “what if…?”
manner. We are all after opportunities, but they rarely come without
difficulties. We all cherish change, but fear the challenges it
brings. Through changing the original challenge of the game the
FOOOOTBALLLL concept challenges a change to occur in the public’s
intelligence and push it to function in a world with multiplied
opportunities and respectively to handle multiplied difficulties. And
hopefully, leaving the FOOOOTBALLLL field, which serves as a metaphor
for daily routine as game play, the viewers and mostly participants
will be infected with new daring perspective and attitude to life.
Space Appropriator #4/ KD Ludo
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| Veronika Tzekova, Space Appropriator #4/ KD Ludo, Graz Austria, 2012 |
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| Veronika Tzekova, Space Appropriator #4/ KD Ludo, Graz Austria, 2012 |
The Ludo game was for a first time appllied on urban design in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2011. Space Appropriator #4 / TT Ludo turned the tactile tiles used rarely on the sidewalks in the city of Sofia into Ludo board by adding color stickers on the relief pattern of the tiles so to form the Ludo board model.
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| Veronika Tzekova/ Space Appropriator #4 / TT Ludo, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2011 |
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| Veronika Tzekova/ Space Appropriator #4 / TT Ludo, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2011 |
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| Veronika Tzekova/ Space Appropriator #4 / TT Ludo, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2011 |
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| Veronika Tzekova/ Space Appropriator #4 / TT Ludo, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2011 |
The CHAlleNGED Tic-tac-toes
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| Cherry Seasoned Tic-tac-toe |
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| XO City /GRA bez GRAnic/ |
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| Gelocht Tic-tac-toe |
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| Pegged Tic-tac-toe |
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| Space Appropriator #4/ KD Tic-tac-toe |
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| Street Tic-tac-toe |
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| Street Tic-tac-toe #2 |
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| Tiled Tic-tac-toe |
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| Tiled Tic-tac-toe |
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| Bookcased Tic-tac-toe |
The CHAlleNGE: Analog Gamification
The CHAlleNGED Games are object based
participatory artworks, which left behind the inviolability
and distant admiration of the artwork and made the audience an active part of
it.
The CHAlleNGED Games fuse conceptual art and
game design, employing existing structures and design objects.
The CHAlleNGED Games serve as reality
representation, challenging the player to look for new possibilities and
shifting his/her perspective on the status quo and daily behavior patterns.
Puzzled Tic-tac-toe © Veronika Tzekova
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