watercolor
Jérémy Griffaud started a watercolor game built on Shinto animism
A month at Akiyoshidai International Art Village went to game design, Gion Matsuri and an ecosystem the player is in relation with, not in charge of.
Kill Screen Staff
Installation
Paizley Lee filled DEAD INTERNET THEORY's second LA night with a rainbow of iMac G3s
The response to an internet run by bots turns out to be a room: a Y2K LAN night where salvaged hardware does what the feed no longer can.
Performance
Kara Güt staged a two-person play inside Red Dead Online at a Dutch film festival
Two performers at a desk with controllers, walking their characters toward each other across a server whose weather and respawns nobody in the room controlled.
net art
SFMOMA and ZKM jointly acquire Eden.Garden 1.0, 25 years after its debut
The 2001 net artwork grows a 3D Garden of Eden out of any website's HTML—and it took a restoration at ZKM to make it collectible at all.
amanita design
Amanita Design built a dystopian city out of real cardboard, then digitized it
Every set in the anti-authoritarian adventure was cut and glued in paper first—a handcrafted city where the Leader rules through loudspeakers.
bots
Playfool built a working bot farm that hands you the controls
Type an opinion into [OP]erator, and100 X accounts post LLM-varied versions of it back
machinima
Bonheur Suprême shot Homunculus, a documentary short, entirely inside Skyrim
Seventeen minutes of machinima about cruising as an "Arab" on gay dating apps—premiered at Visions du Réel, built from the mod community's tools.
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley releases I DIDNT REALISE YOU THOUGHT LIKE THAT as a free browser game
The next chapter of Serpentine's THE DELUSION imagines every hostile online comment made physically real, and asks who you would open the door for.
TEXTURETOWN
Aidan Strong's TEXTURETOWN runs Toontown's source code with the assets of three other dead MMOs
Text from Club Penguin, sound from Pirates of the Caribbean Online, textures from FusionFall: digital preservation practiced as collage.
Blood Dungeon
Messhof's Blood Dungeon, a platforming autoshooter, arrives Aug. 25
Mark Essen drew it himself again: a weekend Game Maker sketch, animated on a $50 tablet in parked cars, grown over years into a bullet heaven you parkour through.
Signet City
Gareth Martin reveals Signet City, a first-person fungalpunk RPG
The Citizen Sleeper creator casts you as a parasite in a monochrome 1980s British industrial city, with dice checks swayed by your host's emotions.
News
doku_zen built Balming Tiger's "Janjan" video out of stop-motion puppets
Photographed puppets standing up in a 3D scene as flat cards, the same arrangement Doom used in 1993.