Fighting the power-and a rough beginning-in Unrest
No giant rats to grind on here.
Only If isn’t interested in playing nice
And we in turn are not interested in playing it.
Playlist 8/6: Counting up Metrico, blasting through a Lovely Planet, and setting sail for 80 Days
Our picks for this week’s essential videogames.
?RA?LE’s low-poly prophecies see the future of games as music
An exercise in communicating meaning—and a song.
Fish Plays Pokémon is exactly what it sounds like
Super effective!
Computer programmed to write fables reveals storytelling is, like, really hard
Or, “Notes From a Bitter Human Writer.”
For a game about infographics, Metrico struggles to deliver info
Cutting through the numbers.
The Last Night explores cyberpunk’s dead end
A two-minute game made in less than a week draws 35 years of sci-fi to a halt.
Abyss Odyssey is an oasis in the desert for a 2D Castlevania fan
Everything old is … well, still sorta old, but not bad.
How Metrico bridges the gap between games and Dutch architecture
Digital Dreams’ first effort channels their local architectural heritage.
Audiovisual installation Timée attempts to draw music from the stars
Guillaume Marmin and Philippe Gordiani work with an astronomer to create a synaesthetic vision.
These shoes prove that in the future we will all dress like PlayStation 1 characters
United Nude has produced an experimental heeled shoe that can be 3D-printed and assembled at home by anyone aiming to look like a 1994 Yu Suzuki character. The low-poly footwear is produced in three pieces: first the blocky main portion, then a toe, then a heel portion. DIY cobblers then fit the thr
Arbitrary subjects turn into kaleidoscopic imagery with Light Pattern
The intersection of photography and computers generally connotes Photoshop and Instagram. The first is a tool for refining and altering photos, enabling manipulation far beyond what’s possible in the darkroom. The second is a sort of casual dumping ground, a worldwide clothesline sagging with millio
Now might be a good time to revisit this game about epidemics
Ebola comes to life in this simple game from Penn State students
The Destiny beta’s unacknowledged debt to the Space Race
Unearthing the space age rhetoric and iconography of Destiny.
Death, regret, and resource management in Spry Fox’s Road Not Taken
Alchemy in winter.
What do Flying Lotus, Piet Mondrian and Frank Lloyd Wright have in common? This app.
A simple app asks a lot of questions.
80 Days is the alternate-reality, anti-colonialism adventure we all deserve
Also, robot camels.
South Korean digital artists construct 3D structures from light alone
Kimchi and Chips’ ethereal new work.
The Sun Also Rises finds the human side of drone warfare
Hemingway’s epic gets an update for the War on Terror.
A robot breaks its rules in The Fall
One way to go?
IBM’s Watson is giving help to business execs
“Watson, what company should I buy?”