Calling Off the Engagement

How a zombie game pulls me in and pushes me away

I Want to Drag It as Long as Possible

Two decades of self-published comics taught Decadence Comics to take a deep breath. Their first game, Rhizomatic Compound, is built to slow you down.

What to Play: July 24th

Honk honk, beep beep

Ok, fine, let's talk some more about penalty kicks

A reader comment sparked an interesting idea

The end of the world isn't so bad

Plus a defense contractor dreams of drones

Stephen Gillmurphy Doesn't Plan Past the Next Chapter [Podcast]

A members' only chat with Irish writer and game designer Stephen Gilmurphy aka thecatamites

Playground Safety is the Enemy of Joy

Artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi bends Lagos security piping into playgrounds, arguing that risk, not safety, is what makes play matter.

Playlist Session with Mitchell Chan [Members-Only]

The Toronto-based artists and game designer joins me for a members-only chat

What to Play This Weekend: July 17

A ripping roaring ride through the Underworld

From Planet X to a Loveseat in Venice

Also: free kicks, subcutaneous projection, and hand-crafted pixels

The Teenage Fantasies of Nikima Jagudajev

The Austrian-Uzbek artist and choreographer has always made worlds with their own rules—from a childhood fantasy game to Like, a video game built from years of live performance.

Temitayo Ogunbiyi Builds Playgrounds Out of Risk and Steel Piping

Temitayo Ogunbiyi's practice began where most playground design stops: with a security fence. Watching galvanized steel piping used to wall off private compounds across Lagos, she saw instead a material she could turn into structures for public play, cheap, weatherproof, and endlessly reconfigurable. In this conversation, she traces