sports theory
What Tottenham's Collapse Teaches Us About the Corruption of Play
What happens when capitalism corrupts play itself? Tottenham's historic collapse explores what game theory reveals about the soul of sport.
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.
grief
Jonathan Coryn's Good Grief
Jonathan Coryn spent six years building a game where you caress grieving figures—and somehow made touch feel like the most radical mechanic in art.
game cities
The Secret to a Believable Game City Isn't What You Think
I sat down with a SimCity historian and a real urban planner to ask: what makes a game city feel alive—and what happens when designers get it wrong?
Online Talk: What Do Game Cities Want?
Join Jamin on March 5th with game urbanist Konstantinos Dimopoulos and author of "Building SimCity" Chaim Gingold for a a talk about urban systems in games!
gravity
Why The Dream Logic of Love Eternal Doesn't Need to Explain Itself
Toby Alden traces a line from to ambient DJing to Love Eternal, a gravity-flipping platformer where dream logic and intuition guide every level.
anthropology
Can AI-Powered Games Actually Teach Anthropology?
Anthropologist Michael Hoffman uses AI to transform ethnographic fieldwork into playable text adventures, bridging the gap between academic research and accessible learning.
Podcast
He Fed a Classic Anthropology Text To Make An AI Game. Here's What Happened.
In 1922, Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific changed anthropology forever, introducing the world to "thick description" and the rigors of deep fieldwork. A century later, researcher Michael Hoffman is bringing that text into the future. In this episode, Jamin Warren sits down with Hoffman—a
February Killscreen Gaming Club
digital preservation
What Happens When You Preserve Your Games While You're Still Making Them?
Simon Flesser of Simogo preserves 15 years of iOS games not as you remember them, but exactly as they were—a radical act of fidelity over nostalgia.
Podcast
Why This Game About the Haitian Revolution Has No Bullets
There's already a game about the Haitian Revolution. It's part of Assassin's Creed. You sneak around, you stab people, you "free the slaves"—and the game gives you an achievement notification. Dom Rabrun thinks that's bullshit.
Vèvè-Punk
No Shots Will Be Fired In Dom Rabrun’s Haitian Revolution
Artist Dom Rabrun rejects combat for "tactical linguistics" in Vèvè-Punk: Mind Singer, a game exploring the Haitian Revolution through dialogue and Black artistry.
digital archaeology
Why should we treat videogames as archaeological sites?
Archaeologist Florence Smith Nicholls discusses "archaeogaming," mapping the digital traces of Elden Ring, and the hopeful act of "anticipatory archaeology."