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Who Do You Let In: What to Play, August 7

Careful what you let through the door.

Do Good Games Taste Like Gasoline? [Podcast]

Danny Snelson on Bennett Foddy’s gasoline problem, a school rebuilt as a Halo map, and three games worth knowing this week.

A weathered wooden door stands open in a dark corridor whose walls are patterned with repeating faces

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley releases I DIDNT REALISE YOU THOUGHT LIKE THAT as a free browser game

The next chapter of Serpentine's THE DELUSION imagines every hostile online comment made physically real, and asks who you would open the door for.

A cartoon character stands in a street built from mismatched textures and glitched storefronts in TEXTURETOWN

Aidan Strong's TEXTURETOWN runs Toontown's source code with the assets of three other dead MMOs

Text from Club Penguin, sound from Pirates of the Caribbean Online, textures from FusionFall: digital preservation practiced as collage.

A small character fires streams of bullets across a platform-filled dungeon room in Blood Dungeon

Messhof's Blood Dungeon, a platforming autoshooter, arrives Aug. 25

Mark Essen drew it himself again: a weekend Game Maker sketch, animated on a $50 tablet in parked cars, grown over years into a bullet heaven you parkour through.

A silhouetted figure walks through a dark underpass toward bright light in a black-and-white scene from Signet City

Gareth Martin reveals Signet City, a first-person fungalpunk RPG

The Citizen Sleeper creator casts you as a parasite in a monochrome 1980s British industrial city, with dice checks swayed by your host's emotions.

An orange, many-toothed creature with sun-ray spikes stands in a green underwater thicket.

doku_zen built Balming Tiger's "Janjan" video out of stop-motion puppets

Photographed puppets standing up in a 3D scene as flat cards, the same arrangement Doom used in 1993.

Game Type: Capture the School

When the power cut the Halo match short, eight teenagers carried its rules across the road and turned their empty high school into the map.

Bennett Foddy's Games Taste Like Gasoline

The Baby Steps game designer reflects on jadedness, embodiment, and building a failson from two decades of human movement

A Walk and The Talk: What to Play, July 31

Grief and routine come to pass in this week's Playlist selection

KS Radar: A man and his horse look for a vet

Plus stop-motion goodness from Jack King-Spooner and a bevy of updates from Alice Bucknell

Calling Off the Engagement

How a zombie game pulls me in and pushes me away

Playlist

What to Play: July 24th

Honk honk, beep beep

intersections

Ok, fine, let's talk some more about penalty kicks

A reader comment sparked an interesting idea

Email

The end of the world isn't so bad

Plus a defense contractor dreams of drones

Playgrounds

Playground Safety is the Enemy of Joy

Artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi bends Lagos security piping into playgrounds, arguing that risk, not safety, is what makes play matter.

Mitchell Chan

Playlist Session with Mitchell Chan [Members-Only]

The Toronto-based artists and game designer joins me for a members-only chat

Playlist

What to Play This Weekend: July 17

A ripping roaring ride through the Underworld

soccer

From Planet X to a Loveseat in Venice

Also: free kicks, subcutaneous projection, and hand-crafted pixels

Rising

The Teenage Fantasies of Nikima Jagudajev

The Austrian-Uzbek artist and choreographer has always made worlds with their own rules—from a childhood fantasy game to Like, a video game built from years of live performance.

Night at the Museum

A sweaty dinner in Paris and some Irish humor

horror comedy

“It's a Horrible Thing to Be Stuck in a Metaphor”

Irish game designer Stephen Gillmurphy meanders through his approach to horror one zine at a time.

Currently Making

The Pink Game About Corporate Violence

Catmilk wants you to go a little wild at work.