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Last Call for the Redding District screenshot: a salmon-mermaid character beneath a 'Welcome back spawners' banner in her hometown

Dating Sim

Fish Make O-Faces, and Other Lessons From the Redding District

Sagan Yee's hookup sim asks what if mermaids lived like Pacific salmon: go home, spawn with everyone you grew up with, then die alongside the whole town.

Matt Romein seated at a keyboard in a black box theater, with a line of game text projected on the wall behind

News

MILKMAN ZERO Turns a Text Adventure Into Live Horror Theater

Matt Romein types every command onstage in a solo show directed by Jerry Lieblich, premiering at Mitu580 in Brooklyn.

A 3D-rendered bowl lit in amber holds three snails, with a dark tool resting against the rim, on a wooden surface.

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To play Joy's Hands, you have to visit a Chinatown gallery

Isabelle Frances McGuire and Will Lee launch their studio Recurseware with a 20-minute Salem witch game

Collaged open call graphic for In the Zone with a chandelier over patterned carpet and an Oct. 15 deadline

News

The Museum of Human Achievement wants art you can gamble on

Proposals are open for In the Zone, an absurdist casino staged for the Austin Studio Tour with stipends up to $800. Sam Lavigne guest curates.

First-person view of an empty hospital bed in a video game hospital room

theater

2021 Turns One Audience Member Into a Dying Veteran

Cole Lewis, Patrick Blenkarn and Sam Ferguson's live game puts one audience member in the role of Brian, a dying veteran, while Brian's daughter narrates from the stage.

A round-headed cartoon figure in a blue sweater leaps and fires a large gun in a dark magenta dungeon

animation

Sticky notes storyboarded Blood Dungeon's animated intro

Dann Beeson wanted Messhof's trailer to look a little wrong. A making-of reel shows howthat took.

A silhouetted figure seen from below against an orange sky crossed by power lines, with a small biplane overhead, in a still from Rehearsals for Retirement.

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A free Los Angeles screening was a history of machinima

At Veggie Cloud, Haydon Mayer and Elijah Valter gave Harun Farocki and a Soulcalibur dance video equal billing.

glitch art

Glitch art and arcade games shared a weekend in Chicago

Bee Nix's Glitch'N'Games ran Oct. 2 and 3 across three venues, then streamed its talks to the Fubar biennale in Zagreb.

Playlist

Not With a Scream, But With a Bloop: What to Play, October 2

It just might be wearing a funny hat.

A cartoon elderly man with a white beard and pink glasses stands in the middle of a colorful city street lined with shops.

News

LIKELIKE's year closed with a party for Future? No Thanks!

Paolo Pedercini's Molleindustria cast an ecosocialist Pittsburgh from a volunteer theater's regulars, then brought it back to the neighborhood.

Atithi installed in a basement room at Basel Social Club 2026: two brass plates on stands before a projected simulation

Sahej Rahal

Sahej Rahal's Atithi interrupts our sense of touch

Touch-reactive engravings let visitors interrupt AI creatures roaming a ruined temple

Daniel Temkin

Code is a plaything in Daniel Temkin’s esolangs

Natasha Chuk’s new essay reads esoteric programming languages through Oulipo, Aarseth’s ergodics, and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.