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Carl Burton’s first videogame reveals the surreal secrets of the city

Carl Burton’s first videogame reveals the surreal secrets of the city

4 min read News
Airport luggage gallops, potted trees ride escalators, and soda cans cyclone in Carl Burton’s first videogame ISLANDS, released today for PC and iOS. It’s a “surreal trip through the mundane,” concerned with those transitory urban locations that lie between destinations. Its subtitle, “Non-Places,”
Carl Burton’s gorgeous GIFs are being turned into a videogame

Carl Burton’s gorgeous GIFs are being turned into a videogame

2 min read News
Shopping malls. Airport bookstores. Hotel lobbies. Carl Burton—the artist and animator behind Serial‘s second season GIFs—is creating a videogame that exploits the “boringness” of these liminal, corporate spaces. Using the foggy, surrealist art style of his GIFs, ISLANDS is a videogame you experienc