Gravity Goblins
Walls become floors on command in Gravity Goblins
The Rat Zone's fourth bite-size game is hoards trinkets, blows it all at the arcade.
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YACHT is pressing its alien TV hits to double vinyl
Greatest Hits from Planet Blip collects music from Blippo+, the off-cable television simulator Panic published last year. The label dates it 16 October.
News
The studio that fled publishers is now a publisher
thatgamecompany has launched thatgamepublisher, spending Sky: Children of the Light money on other people’s emotionally ambitious games.
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At Wonderville, nine games replaced the gamepad entirely
The second annual Alt.Ctrl Festival ran this past summer in Bushwick
Meow Wolf
Inflatable microbes toured all five Meow Wolf worlds
Nicole Banowetz and Devin Reilly sewed Phenomenomaly’s newest Leviathan from the anatomy of microscopic organisms.
museum
A scanned house is the museum in Biosphere 3
Branden Collins and four collaborators modeled an actual home as an explorable level, then hid a second world called AKUPARA inside it.
oregon trail
Carol Ann Has Dysentery
Living, learning, and dying on the steps of The Oregon Trail
choreography
When you can no longer close the club, you build one
Sobriety and injury cost Ambrose Trataris the nightclub, so they rebuilt it inside VRChat, then staged it as a dance work where one body puppets another.
Playlist
Gradually, Then Suddenly: What to Play, September 4
Turns out the whole universe is bent steel
ai
Refik Anadol's AI museum takes your pulse as an input
Every visitor at the Grand LA wears a wristband and a scent collar, and leaves holding a paper token of the data they generated, to keep or to destroy.
SFPC
SFPC's HTTPoetics reads the handmade web as memory work
Tyler Yin and Kayla Drzewicki revisit the class's hand-built sites: a CD-ROM homage, a hammam of grief, pop-up loops of a toxic relationship.
Hypnogenesis
A video synthesizer is the control scheme in Hypnogenesis
Allen Riley and Andy Wallace wired a bullet hell into the guts of an image feedback loop, then demoed it on a CRT for the games-research crowd.