Currently Making - Killscreen

Podcast

Brass, Flesh and a Genius Grant [Podcast]

Danny Snelson and I follow Murlo's solo game, a cartridge milled for a grandmother and a MacArthur that names a game, to ask who gets to be the genius.

Podcast

The Buttons Are Under Your Skin [Podcast]

I ask Murlo how a decade of reading dance floors led him to build a Luddite point-and-click game alone, with a sequencer hidden under the player's skin.

Murlo

Murlo Builds a World You Can Play

Chris Pell spent a decade reading dance floors. Now he is building a Luddite point-and-click alone, for one player at a time, with an album hidden inside it.

Currently Making

I Want to Drag It as Long as Possible

Two decades of self-published comics taught Decadence Comics to take a deep breath. Their first game, Rhizomatic Compound, is built to slow you down.

Currently Making

The Pink Game About Corporate Violence

Catmilk wants you to go a little wild at work.

corporate culture

What Does Violence Look Like in Pink?

Catmilk has spent four years building Gossamer Matrix, a pink-drenched corporate shooter that deliberately refuses to optimize for fun. I went to find out why.

ecological art

What Would You Do If You Had to Find the Last Surviving Bees?

The Athens-based artist Kyriaki Goni on a woven basket gifted to her at 18, the ritual of telling bees about deaths and births, and building a speculative video game set in a near-future Aegean.