Artist Jake Kazdal has been working in the video game industry for around 15 years now, for companies like Electronic Arts, Zombie VR and Big Boss.

I'd played games avidly since I could manipulate keys on a keyboard, with the same ferocity of concentration that I'd read all the books in my parents' house. I read everything from Agatha Christie's endless novels to "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".

Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the developer behind Space Channel 5, Lumines, and Rez—and its upcoming spiritual sequel Child of Eden—joined the long list of smart, creative types who can boast of having their own TED talk. What does Mizuguchi think is an "idea worth spreading"?

Making video games that support them, however, is totally awesome. In 2002, game designer Testuya Mizuguchi made a "trance vibrator" for his synethesia shooter Rez. The trance vibrator even came in a washable "protective glove".

We've been sold on Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi's celebration of music and movement since we saw Child of Eden at E3 2010, so each additional trailer is just a bittersweet reminder that we don't have yet.

The moment that Child of Eden, the follow-up to Sega's trippy musical shooter Rez, starts to look evolutionarily different from its predecessor is during the level known as "Beauty." It's a trip through a softly colored, garden-like alien world, full of bizarre abstract creatures.

You'll only need to one button to play Fotonica, a first-person platform jumping game oozing with style that its creators say is created in the fashion of "ugly 3D of the 90s."

Developer Q? Entertainment's Child of Eden finds players in a happier place than the game it was inspired by, the trippy 2001 musical shooter Rez.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi wants to share your "happy feelings" with the world—or at least with the people who play Child of Eden, developer Q? Entertainment's spiritual sequel to the classic synaesthetic shooter Rez.