How one terrible movie defined our vision of the future.
During the 3D boom of the ’90s, games that allowed players to experience depth in a digital world drew inspiration from the image of virtual reality that Lawnmower Man predicted. Lawnmower Man didn’t just anticipate what virtual reality would look like. It created the expectation that we’d be looking at it in the first place.
Six months in, NOMIAD has no engine and no editor—just WebGL, multiplayer, and an artificial-life simulation running underneath.
Cezar Mocan built a satellite that cannot agree with itself about the night a toxic lake vanished, and its unreliability turns out to be a design decision.
thatgamecompany has launched thatgamepublisher, spending Sky: Children of the Light money on other people’s emotionally ambitious games.
The second annual Alt.Ctrl Festival ran Sunday in Bushwick — free, city-backed, and closing with a choral work scored for stepper motors.