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Architects redraw Doom and Disco Elysium as building plans
Sandra Youkhana and Luke Caspar Pearson's follow-up to Videogame Atlas measures 12 game worlds in sections and exploded diagrams
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Daniel Temkin
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.
Fake Games
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.
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A philosopher files Grand Theft Auto next to de Sade
Daisy Dixon’s Depraved treats games as full participants in the history of dangerous art, not late examples.
Rocket League
When a car throws a hook mid-air, driving becomes flight
Cabbibo’s Moon Ball grafts the Lashing magic from Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight novels onto a Rocket League chassis.
Generative Art
Travess Smalley's pixel rugs get a fluorescent monograph
Vetro Editions prints 192 pages of generative weaving in UV-reactive inks, with essays by Casey Reas and Anika Meier.
Gray Area
Gray Area now lends out books, kits and gadgets
Anastasia Chernysheva's Cybersentics (little) Library launched Aug. 20 in San Francisco as a collection its own community stocks.
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On the Perfection of Books
Could the ideal user interface be the one you’re holding in your hands?
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John Darnielle’s next novel is a horror story about fragmented video tapes
In the music he writes for the Mountain Goats, John Darnielle tells intensely specific stories. One song describes a breakfast of boiled peanuts the morning a parther leaves for good. Another, from the band’s most recent album, Beat the Champ (2015), mournfully describes a wrestling match in which t
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New word processor lets you type letters with satellite images
Imagine painstakingly combing through the entirety of Google Maps trying to find buildings, pools, and other structures that resemble letters, then compiling those images together to make new fonts created wholly out of aerial imagery. That’s exactly what creators Benedikt Groß (a computational desi
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Your favorite playground is actually a work of art, apparently
A Swiss art exhibition center finds sophistication and the potential for modern art in a most seemingly ordinary place: children’s playgrounds. The Kunsthalle Zürich, a center known for seeking to break boundaries in art by redefining its concepts, has begun crowdfunding The Playground Project, a bo
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Banksy gets Banksy-er with the addition of LEGO
Maybe photographer Jeff Friesen is Banksy. I don’t have any real reason to believe that this is the case, but all Banksy-adjacent content should include some unfounded speculation about the mysterious artist’s true identity, so that’s my duty dispensed with. Here’s something I know for a fact about