Wendi Yan
Wendi Yan built a puzzle game out of Daoist inner alchemy
You move through a science-fiction landscape as a bundle of qi, aligning your own breath with the planet's carbon cycle. Meditation as mechanic, scripture as technology.
climate change
climate change
What is the Environmental Weight of a Rendered Frame?
Kara Stone and Joshua Dawson are making work about a world in crisis. They're also reckoning with what it means to build inside the systems driving it.
game design
Rui Hu: The infinite futures of games
Artist Rui Hu blends game engines, installation art, and memory to examine how virtual spaces infiltrate our physical world.
indigenous design
Playing with Purpose: Elizabeth LaPensée's Cultural Game Design
Elizabeth LaPensée integrates Indigenous knowledge into game design, creating experiences that honor traditional ways of knowing while addressing contemporary issues.
digital art
Keiken: Towards new collective belief through CGI cinema
Art collective Keiken creates speculative futures in Unreal Engine, examining digital identity and climate change through magical realist CGI narratives and virtual performances.
nature
Paloma Dawkins sees the natural world through games
Montreal-based artist Paloma Dawkins creates surreal games that reconnect players with nature, challenging our alienation from the natural world through digital spaces.
News
A boardgame about climate change that melts as you play
The world is warming up. This we know. Over its long, long life, the Earth has gone through multiple cycles of cooling and heating up again, or glacial advance and retreat. These are largely attributed to small shifts in the Earth’s orbit, which change the amount of solar energy received by the plan
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Tahira aims for the stars to escape a beautiful, dying planet
Dreams from a dying planet.
Article
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask has only grown more important with time
Fifteen years later, the game is almost too real.
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The beautiful augmented reality dreamscape of Wuxia the Fox
Eight years ago, around the time when the word “transmedia” first started getting tossed around, Jonathan Belisle began collecting his dreams into an ill-defined storyworld. “I started writing the story of a young girl named Oremia, who dreamed about whales. It was nothing structured. Mostly an aggr
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This interactive journal envisions what we’ll all be dealing with as global warming continues
Natural disasters are not more resilient than the human spirit.
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These cloud-shaped skyscrapers may give Columbia a run for her money
Only, instead of racism, it’s all about eco-friendliness.