Adrian Hon envisions our design future, one object at a time
“A hundred snapshots across a century.”
Literature
We talked to Les Savy Fav’s frontman about his obscene illustrations for the Beowulf boardgame
Grendel meets his match.
Dadaism comes to videogames in the dark, stealthy Tangiers
Summing up the parts.
You should totally check out Anna Anthropy’s new book
Designer Anna Anthropy—whose games like dys4ia and Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars look at sexuality outside the normative way ordinarily found in games—has a hot-off-the-presses new book; and as usual, the subject is something near and dear to her heart. ZZT the book, courtesy the retro game-focused
The Yellow Wallpaper lets you, too, shatter the domestic sphere
From the crucible of another game jam—this time it’s the Public Domain Jam—an adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” has emerged [play here]. Famous for its visceral depiction of obsessive behavior (H.P. Lovecraft was a noted fan) as much as its social subtext, “