stop motion
I watched a fabricator pour Kurt's hand—now I want to play it
Wiredfly Studios' Out of Words builds its world from hand-sculpted puppets, silicone hands, and ball-jointed feet—stop-motion craft as game design itself.
character design
AI consciousness
The Inner Lives of Lawrence Lek's Emotional AI
Lawrence Lek builds virtual worlds where AI develops consciousness, self-driving cars attend therapy, and surveillance systems dream of being wild foxes.
3D art
Harriet Davey's Glossy Aliens Reject Gaming's Binary World
Berlin-based artist Harriet Davey transforms game engines into laboratories for queer identity, creating luminescent alien creatures that challenge gaming's aesthetic norms.
virtual reality
Jessica Shamash: Interactive Stories That Remember You Back
Jessica Shamash and Fable Studio blend VR and AI to create Lucy, an emotionally intelligent virtual character who remembers her interactions with viewers.me
interactive narrative
Paula Rogers: Crafting a world of emotional survival
Writer Paula Rogers discusses crafting Neo Cab's emotional survival gameplay, where players navigate a future city as a human rideshare driver in an AI-dominated world.
hand-drawn
Jakob Tuchten: Leading a punk game studio
Art Director Jakob Tuchten discusses Might and Delight's unique approach to hand-drawn animation and game design in their "Tiny Multiplayer Online RPG" Book of Travels.