sports theory
What Tottenham's Collapse Teaches Us About the Corruption of Play
What happens when capitalism corrupts play itself? Tottenham's historic collapse explores what game theory reveals about the soul of sport.
eric zimmerman
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Waiting Rooms is a building-sized game about the struggles of bureaucracy
When I left the Rubin Museum of Art’s Waiting Rooms exhibit, I had 14 yellow tickets, 24 pennies, and a form with a picture of a unicorn on it in my pocket. It sounds like the random hodgepodge of garbage a quirky Tina Fey character might carry, yes, but within the world of the exhibit, it was a ver
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An upcoming puzzle game tasks you with decoding classic literature
In the world of Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, books have been outlawed and are burned en masse by the state, only kept in small collections by the occasional revolutionary. Instead of reading, the majority of people spend their free time in “entertainment parlors,” rooms lined with massi