Virtual Worlds Competition

From April 8th to 12th - extended till April 18th as part of Immersions at Carrefour Numérique at Cité des sciences et de l'industrie

NewImages Virtual Worlds Competition focuses on immersive creations unfolding within interactive and persistent virtual environments. It celebrates projects that prioritize world-building, user agency and social interaction, expanding the possibilities of storytelling beyond linear formats.

What Is Virtual Art - Volume 1 by ZENG Chen, Polaris, LI Tianzhi & ReVerse Butcher

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China

"What Is Virtual Art - Volume 1" is an online exhibition. Curated by Jessien Huang, it explores virtual art via four visionary artists reimagining traditional forms: Shadow Play (ZENG Chen), Theatrical Scenery (Polaris), Pop-Up Book (LI Tianzhi), and Collage (ReVerse Butcher).

Strangeways by Adam Lieber & Chris Bianchi

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UK

Strangeways floats beyond our strangled world, where ruins gossip, junk dreams, and nature whispers back. It wanders through humanity’s urge to build, abandon, myth-make, and imagine — until the wild, the primitive, and the ridiculous quietly reclaim the void.

SUKU by Durk van der Meer

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Curaçao

Moving from Europe to a small Island in the Caribbean (Curacao) during COVID, I found a lot of new inspiration for my art. SUKU is an explorable painting that contains a lot of those inspirations and mixes them as colors into a new otherworldly landscape.

FRUSTRAIN: TRAINMAN by Pavel Pavlyukov, Dmitry Vorobev & Kirill Komarov

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France, Estonia

A first-person anti-utopian adventure blending puzzles and psychological horror. In the first chapter of our game, you are a train conductor who has lived aboard his carriage for over 25 years.

Complex 7 by Fins

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US

Explore a city frozen in time where robots and animals live without humans. Wander lively streets, uncover hidden stories, and discover a world where mechanical and organic life coexist in quiet harmony, each encounter revealing a piece of its mystery.

VERTICAL HORIZON / 361 DEGREES by Maria Kobyakova

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United Arab Emirates

A surreal virtual world dedicated to the light calligraphy of Arab artist Karim Jabbari. Visitors explore an ancient cityscape, collecting five glowing words that ultimately reveal the artist’s hidden philosophical message.

The last stanza by ReVerse Butcher

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Australia

Explore a surreal world to uncover 6 hidden stanzas, each tied to a virtual artwork. As you collect them, poetic reflections ask: Where does the soul live? Part poem, part quest, The Last Stanza invites you to search, climb, listen, & think. Maybe, just maybe, you'll find where your own soul lives.