Disassembled handheld gaming consoles arranged on a work mat. The image displays circuit boards, buttons, and tools alongside empty game cartridges. A magnifying glass is also visible on the mat.

Loveletter

Who doesn’t know it: the portable games console that saw the light of day at the end of the 1980s and gave us endless hours of fun and games for many years. We are, of course, talking about the Gameboy. A time when the potential of computer-generated graphics was in its infancy. But what if a creative team back then had had access to today’s production pipelines and technologies?

This story, like so many others in recent times, starts at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis. You sit in lockdown and start to think about how you actually came to be a 3D artist. It definitely has something to do with the joy of technology and discovering it through play. So it's not hard to take this thought further and think about the first computer that set you on this path. Of course, your neighbour's Commodore 64 and your own 80386 computer with Windows 3.11 come to mind. But there was something else before all the big computers: the Gameboy. Even if it wasn't powerful and purpose-built, it could undoubtedly be categorised as a computer. And so it's fair to conclude that I learnt about my love of computers with the Gameboy.

A passion that ultimately led me to my profession. And so the ball started rolling on what was to become a 1 ½ month full-time project called "Loveletter" - namely to transform my old Gameboy Classic, purchased around 199...


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