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Game engines meet stagecraft in dmstfctn’s Rhizome talk
Also, a purgatory for cheating AIs built as a theatre, where the audience runs the lights by phone.
Code is a plaything in Daniel Temkin’s esolangs
Natasha Chuk’s new essay reads esoteric programming languages through Oulipo, Aarseth’s ergodics, and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.
A MAZE. / Berlin 2027: May 5–8, with 200 early-bird tickets
The arthouse-games festival whose lineup predicts a year of coverage sets its 16th edition; award submissions may open as early as December.
John Walsh bound 21 fake games into one huge hardcover
Hollow Press's 176-page anthology, written by the YouTuber known as Super Eyepatch Wolf, reviews titles that exist only as art, Vermis to Bird World.