An experimental strategy game that could’ve landed its creator in jail
Winner gets to bring down the IRL website of her choice!
Chris Priestman
Three music toys for when you’re feeling drowsy
I used to call The Tiny Bang Story my “lullaby game” on account of its reliability in sending me to sleep at my desk in the late hours of the night. It’s a gentle, soothing hidden object game with hand-painted artwork that you can complete in less than an hour. I used to deliberately put it on while
The Stage opens up for videogame performance art
You are the collaborator.
The videogame and ghost story that led internet sleuths to break into a Texas cemetery
im null makes a performance out of virtual horror art.
Drive across Mars, discover the unreal in Naut
Naut is about not knowing where you are, not knowing what is real. How did you get there? What are you doing? Not just that: it wants you to experience these unanswered questions washing over you with a warm complacency. It’s a sci-fi opera with psyche-fi undertones. But first, a story: I first got
A conversation with John Clowder, whose collage-like games have to be seen to be believed
Find out Where They Cremate the Roadkill.
Mayday! Deep Space is your harrowing weekend odyssey
Get ready to wipe your iPad down, occasionally.
Recapturing the low-res horror of early 3D worlds
“I feel like I’ve been given the tools and powers of some half-crazed architecture-goddess, and I can reify any weird dream or vision I have. And I intend to.”
NO FUN HOUSE is what happens when a net artist decides to break Unity
Embracing videogame failure with Cassie McQuater.
More fortune tellers need monkey onesies and glitches
Divination, after all, is the crowned ruler of the mystic.
Sci-fi film corridors re-purposed as a videogame maze
The history of sci-fi, stitched together in glorious 3D.
Survive Christmas as a poverty-stricken dad in 33rd Street
You are going to make it through this week.
Remaking the notorious PS1 freakout LSD: Dream Emulator
Coming probably not very soon to Unity and/or your nightmares.
I’m Positive aims to reduce the stigma around getting tested for HIV
Pardon me, but let’s start this out with a personal question: Have you been tested for HIV? If you’re aged between 13 and 64 years old then it’s recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that you get tested for it at least once. Time’s a-tickin’. If you’re a little frighten
Experience the Ferguson shooting from the witnesses’ perspectives
A new experimental project by Fusion, in conjunction with Empathetic Media and the Reynolds Journalism Institute, showcases the potential of using virtual reality and game development tools as an apparatus for reporting real-world events. It’s called Ferguson VR, and it allows you to explore the eig
How do you make a better political videogame? Here’s one idea
If there were an ongoing debate about how best to weave political discourse into a videogame, I’d have to put a vote in for the way Jonas and Verena Kyratzes have always done it. Sure, I’ll give credit to those making short, systems-based games such as the prolific and controversial Molleindustria,
Punch a $10 million painting and get away with it
Ever wanted to punch a painting? I don’t mean a pre-schoolers’ red-blobbed masterpiece of their family. We’re talking a painting hung with a lavish golden frame in an art gallery, the type that people swan around with fingers curled to their chins, thoughts swirling with admiration. That type of pai
Find a disturbing truth when rummaging through the wreckage of a home
Forsaken is a game that posits a creeping question: what do your dwelling and possessions reveal about your character? It employs you as someone who is sent to declutter and clean up abandoned houses. The one you get to mouse over is an omnishambles; a putrid disarray of residential flotsam. As you
Van Gogh’s troubled psyche explored in lurching claymation
For her Master Thesis at the IT University of Copenhagen, Federica Orlati has spent the past nine months meticulously crafting Ever Yours, Vincent. It’s a point-and-click adventure based on the letters that Vincent van Gogh sent to his younger brother Theo while living in Arles, France. In the game,
A videogame for all you lonely kids (and adults) out there
There may not be a greater intimation of loneliness than a child attempting to play a videogame that was designed for two persons. Picture them sat cross-legged in front of an old boxy television, completely by themselves, attempting to rush their limbs across two gamepads, and sighing with their en
Play with your food, manipulate 3D art, lose your mind
Three totally insane games to do instead of … whatever else you were planning today.
Finally, comeuppance for zoning out on mass transportation
Hereafter referred to as the tube.
The triumphant return of 5734L3R, one of the most beautiful pieces of vaporware ever
Cyberpunk as a texture.
Secret Habitat explores the phenomena of procedural art
“Emptiness grows,” it is stated at the beginning of the game.
Infini-Quest teaches us to focus on the journey, not the destination
You’ve done it, haven’t you? Of course you have—you’re a human being, and more than that, one who has the spoils of modern living out to entertain you at every corner. It all became a noise to you at one point, didn’t it? You were lost; tragically you’d say, in the toils of a life yet to be lived.