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Protest food snobbery with Leigh Alexander’s text adventure

Game developers and journalists switching jobs doesn’t necessarily result in the best media, but it’s a learning experience for both sides. Famed gaming journalist Leigh Alexander’s text adventure has a self-aware streak that reminds me of D.F. Wallace, or maybe just Daniel Handler. Check out her co

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.

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

Do Good Games Taste Like Gasoline? [Podcast]

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

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