Escape from New York
Read on for a Backrooms dissertation and pink corporate espionage
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.
corporate culture
What Does Violence Look Like in Pink?
Catmilk has spent four years building Gossamer Matrix, a pink-drenched corporate shooter that deliberately refuses to optimize for fun. I went to find out why.
Playlist
What to Play This Weekend: June 4
Dance my pain away
Podcast
Your Body Is Being Compressed
Lisa Jamhoury on Lossy, Grief, and the Digital Body
Something lost, something found
Read on for a new take on collage in games and a world of felt and clay
digital body
So It Goes
Lisa Jamhoury's Lossy is a memorial to the physical body in the age of the digital body—and a reckoning with what we lose when we let ourselves be averaged.
Playlist
May 28: What To Play This Weekend
Wanna be an intern for John le Carré?
Where did all the bees go?
Read on for French dungeons and a game as big as the planet itself.
Podcast
Telling the Bees: Kyriaki Goni on Building a Game from a Stranger's Gift
In this episode, I talk with Greek artist Kyriaki Goni about Telling the Bees — her in-development game about a character called the Bee-Seeker, searching for the last surviving bees in a near-future Aegean archipelago on the edge of ecological collapse.
ecological art
What Would You Do If You Had to Find the Last Surviving Bees?
The Athens-based artist Kyriaki Goni on a woven basket gifted to her at 18, the ritual of telling bees about deaths and births, and building a speculative video game set in a near-future Aegean.
Playlist
May 22: What to Play This Weekend
Something short for a long American weekend
The Places We're Losing Are Becoming Virtual Worlds
Plus: Faker as religious experience, strategy guides to non-existent games, and a very fancy date spot in Barcelona