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A theater audience in the dark faces a large screen showing the video game asses.masses

News

Patrick Blenkarn Hosts Democracy, Games, and Performance

The asses.masses co-creator leads a free Zoom dialogue on games, performance and collective decision-making for Koç University's KARMA Lab.

The yellow cover of This Is Why You Love LEGO by Jess Uhre Rahbek, styled like a LEGO brick seen from the side.

books

Jess Uhre Rahbek Releases This Is Why You Love LEGO

The MIT Press book, out Oct. 13, draws on three years embedded with the LEGO House design team.

A small hand-drawn creature in an illustrated environment from In Full Bloom

News

obleak games Dates Creature-Feeding Game In Full Bloom

A free demo of the Tamagotchi-inspired Katamari-like is on Steam now.

Installation

Playfool's The Server Puts a Data Center Vacuum in the V&A

The Emerging Designer Commission turns museum visitors into cleaning staff at the South Kensington museum, and entry is free.

Alt-Ctrl

Tatiana Vilela dos Santos Opens ALT+CTRL@home Jam

The nine-month itch.io call for games that use a standard controller in weird ways is open now, and household objects count.

A vast machine hovers over a flooded landscape ringed by bare trees in Jeremy Kamal's Mojo: The Floods

News

Be Playful brings Black-made game demos, AR and films to Leimert Park

Connor Wall's echolocating android and Jeremy Kamal's Mojo films lead a slate of game demos, AR pieces and shorts.

Event banner for GTMO 441: Games, Detention, Power

Guantánamo

A game about Guantánamo is being built with its survivor

Mansoor Adayfi, held without charge for 14 years, joined Joseph DeLappe and Biome Collective as co-creator rather than subject.

A bullet with a screaming face flies past a large, colorfully dressed creature in Ghost Rococó

News

Lucas Lugarinho Shows Ghost Rococó at the Rijksakademie

Players control a stray bullet drifting through a dream with no mission or target.

Two colorful cards. One reads Play-pril, a month long game making challenge. The other lists prompts for days one to six.

Arlo Howard

A hat of prompts gave Arlo Howard 30 games in 30 days

Play-pril, a daily making ritual from the interactive theatre maker, became a workshop at The Big Thing in Llandudno on Sept. 10.

Podcast

The Cicada Does Not Know Summer [Podcast]

An arcade cabinet in Tokyo writes a stranger's life from census data, and the artist who built it explains why you are allowed to go back exactly once.

Playing Models

Playing Models brings its AI symposium to SCI-Arc

Architects who work in game engines gather in Los Angeles on September 18, free to attend, with an image open call closing August 31.

A toy blaster rewired with a tangle of jumper cables, above a list of the eight exhibiting students

School of Machines

An evening of alt-ctrl games closed a Berlin summer school

Press Play capped a month of hardware-and-play experiments at School of Machines, with Niklas Roy, Chloe Desmoineaux, and Lorenzo Pilia among the instructors.