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Shape of the World’s creator wants you to get lost in ephemeral beauty
“I find pleasure in getting lost in a place I’m familiar with.”
Chris Priestman
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Tokyo 1923 conveys one of Japan’s worst natural disasters
In reading Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa’s memories of the Great Kant? earthquake of 1923, there appear two images more striking than the rest. The first one is the bloated corpses that lapped up against the bank of Sumidagawa River: a dirty red assemblage of death that made Kurosawa’s knees
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Plug & Play exposes the hopelessness of digital communication
Swiss animator Michael Frei has a strange fascination with fingers. “What I especially like about hands is their expressiveness,” he told Director’s Notes back in 2013. It makes sense: he’s an animator, he uses his hands a lot, to create, to mold, to make actual the visions inside his head. And so d
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In pursuit of videogames’ bottomless pits
What lurks outside a videogame’s boundaries?
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Papetura offers a delightful world of animated paper
Papetura sure is made out of paper. In the game’s opening shot alone there are sheets of it: curled into pulsing fingers like ocean waves or quilted grass, twee spiraling silhouettes proffering the shape of local flora. Devoid of every color but white, and with only these paper shapes suggesting the
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Hide-and-seek can be so much better inside videogames
This innocent, empty office is actually filled with danger.
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India’s "living bridges" evoke the moss-covered ruins of Dark Souls
Hopefully things pan out a bit better for the residents of Meghalaya than Lordran.
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The destructive marriage of videogames and relationships
Driving through the ruins of a romance.
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What if music controlled a videogame instead of the player?
Perhaps videogames could be more like videos than games.
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Interruption Junction exposes our anxieties around public conversation
“That awkward moment when ….” comes to videogames.
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A game about dealing with problems by biting your fingers
Finally a good use for all those years spent gnawing the inside of your mouth.
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An experimental strategy game that could’ve landed its creator in jail
Winner gets to bring down the IRL website of her choice!