The Intimacy Issue

LOVE. LONELINESS. MARRIAGE. DISTANCE. DESIRE. FAMILY. CONNECTION. LOSS. Welcome to the “Intimacy” issue.

Count to Ten

A thought on hand holding

Save Aeris

How can we be moved by the fate of Aeris Gainsborough?

PAUSE: The Mary Mack 5000

Kaho Abe's clapping game, wired to an Arduino

How Does It Feel?

Katherine Isbister wants to know you from the inside out

Talking Thinking Believing

Dragon Age through words and deeds

PAUSE: Tiffani Hooper

A thesis show about marriage, race, and a PlayStation 3

Character Building

Growing up on Grove Street

Sucker Punch

Game designers talk about their most influential fights

Suicidal Tendencies

On having Everything but the girl in Japan

Poster Boy

Mapping Alefgard from inside a psychiatric ward

Lowebrow

A conversation with the creator of Leisure Suit Larry

PAUSE: Andrew Hymas

Atari adaptations of romantic comedies

Unco-operative

Two players. One protagonist.

I Understand, Now Come

The couple that fights together, stays together

Romantic Developments

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the action-RPG

Commuter Pain

Me, my wife, and a train

All the Spaces Between Us

Struggling to connect in a pixilated world

On the Line

Connecting with the creator of Digital: A Love Story

A Creation Myth

Does making my own world mean I have to live in it?

Such Good Daring

A Super Bowl ad, a marriage, and Dante's Inferno

ROMance

A proposal that came with a walkthrough