Los Santos

Space Travel (or, Falling Down)

How do we actually remember Los Santos?

Images courtesy of Steven Strom, Tor Justad, and Rockstar Games

Fifteen minutes from the airport, I come upon my first shootout. Four cops light up an old coupe, its driver and passenger return fire, everyone curses, more shots, then the passenger falls dead, then the driver. I stand and watch, placidly, then keep walking.

A first-person view down a corridor where every wall, floor, and enemy is rendered from glowing text characters

When you switch languages, Torizon Telecom rebuilds itself

SkagoGames' shooter renders walls, guns, and bullets as words

A city street rendered entirely in colored text characters, from the TerminalDev project reel

TerminalDev's open-world city is drawn entirely in ASCII

A pseudonymous solo dev is building a multiplayer crime sandbox with no 3D models or shaders

A neon-green flooded city seen in first person, with platforming rails threading between rooftops

Critical Reflex picks up Grindset T.V.

INFINITE ANIMAL's courier platformer is set in a corporatized Heaven, and the Mouthwashing publisher's signature reads like a curatorial stamp.

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Ask the satellite twice, get two different lies.

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When you switch languages, Torizon Telecom rebuilds itself

TerminalDev's open-world city is drawn entirely in ASCII

Critical Reflex picks up Grindset T.V.

Watch "A Field Guide of Orbital Melancholy" [Playlist 289]