Ice-Pick Lodge Studio
About the Artist
Ice-Pick Lodge is a Russian video game development studio that excels for its approach to creating innovative video games, presenting them as a new form of contemporary art. The studio’s products in 2005 and 2007 received the Most Non-Standard Game awards at the Russian Game Developers Conference (KRI). Head of the studio Nikolay Dybowski regards it as an ‘artistic association’, and the members as ‘poets and artists from the game industry’, emphasising their non-commercial interest in creating games.