The end of the world isn't so bad
Plus a defense contractor dreams of drones
Jamin Warren
Jamin Warren founded Killscreen. He produced the first VR arts festival with the New Museum, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival, the first arcade at the Museum of Modern Art, won a Telly, and hosted Game/Show for PBS.
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Podcast
Stephen Gillmurphy Doesn't Plan Past the Next Chapter [Podcast]
A members' only chat with Irish writer and game designer Stephen Gilmurphy aka thecatamites
playgrounds
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.
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Mitchell Chan
Playlist Session with Mitchell Chan [Members-Only]
The Toronto-based artists and game designer joins me for a members-only chat
Playlist
What to Play This Weekend: July 17
A ripping roaring ride through the Underworld
soccer
From Planet X to a Loveseat in Venice
Also: free kicks, subcutaneous projection, and hand-crafted pixels
Rising
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.
Podcast
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
Night at the Museum
A sweaty dinner in Paris and some Irish humor
horror comedy
“It's a Horrible Thing to Be Stuck in a Metaphor”
Irish game designer Stephen Gillmurphy meanders through his approach to horror one zine at a time.
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Podcast
The Backrooms Were Always About Games [Podcast]
Plus getting lost in Goa and a blob of petroleum animates
Currently Making
The Pink Game About Corporate Violence
Catmilk wants you to go a little wild at work.