Tim Garbos

Here’s a tip: Break games to find new ones

Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Broken Breakout? (Browser, Windows, Mac) By Tim Garbos One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. That’s how the old adage goes. But can it be applied to videogames? Tim Garbos seems to

Keyboard Sports wants you to find joy in using keyboards again

Keyboard Sports turned my Spacebar into a couch and that is so darn delightful. Thank you for that, Keyboard Sports. I’ve never really seen my keyboard as anything other than a set of lettered keys before. I barely look at it as I jam my fingers into it every day, typing up my thoughts, but now it h

Play with words in a videogame about weird idioms

English is a curious language. It’s deceptively easy to pick up, oversimplified and left bare by our lack of gendered nouns and relatively easy cases, but as anyone with a different mother tongue will tell you, mastering it is incredibly hard. It’s a carefree language that pays little heed to conven

3:15AM makes obfuscation a play mechanic in Nordic Game Jam gem

It’s 2:24PM and I’m playing 3:15AM, an experimental game made by Martin Fasterholdt and Tim Garbos at the Nordic Game Jam held two weeks ago in Copenhagen. I have no idea what to do. My lo-poly man sits in an office chair. His posture reminds me of the Thinking Man statue; my own thoughts are simila