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Beautiful Ugly

Beautiful Ugly is an interactive art piece that critiques notions of the body, media consumption and the ephemerality of digital technologies. Beautiful Ugly is an exquisite corpse comprised of 6 interactable…

8 March 2016

Beautiful Ugly is an indie, released 8 March 2016 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Beautiful Ugly is

Beautiful Ugly was released in 2016. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Beautiful Ugly is an interactive art piece that critiques notions of the body, media consumption and the ephemerality of digital technologies. Beautiful Ugly is an exquisite corpse comprised of 6 interactable vignettes that thread together to create a sensorial experience unique to videogames. Beautiful Ugly plays on videogame conventions and film techniques to critique design, player conventions, along with media consumption and the ephemerality of technology. Beautiful Ugly is created by Owen Bell, Ansh Patel, Karina Popp, Reynaldo Vargas, and Tony Kao.
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How it plays

It is played from a auditory perspective.

What it launched against

Beautiful Ugly launched on 8 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Stardew Valley and SuperHot.

Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Stardew Valley, SuperHot.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Beautiful Ugly come out?
Beautiful Ugly was released on 8 March 2016 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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