Wendi Yan
Wendi Yan built a puzzle game out of Daoist inner alchemy
You move through a science-fiction landscape as a bundle of qi, aligning your own breath with the planet's carbon cycle. Meditation as mechanic, scripture as technology.
United States
arcade
Wonderville's new cabinet Step Right Up! crosses a Zoltar machine with vector graphics
Game, cabinet, UI, voice, animatronic head and a custom trackball each get a credit
Installation
Paizley Lee filled DEAD INTERNET THEORY's second LA night with a rainbow of iMac G3s
The response to an internet run by bots turns out to be a room: a Y2K LAN night where salvaged hardware does what the feed no longer can.
Performance
Kara Güt staged a two-person play inside Red Dead Online at a Dutch film festival
Two performers at a desk with controllers, walking their characters toward each other across a server whose weather and respawns nobody in the room controlled.
TEXTURETOWN
Aidan Strong's TEXTURETOWN runs Toontown's source code with the assets of three other dead MMOs
Text from Club Penguin, sound from Pirates of the Caribbean Online, textures from FusionFall: digital preservation practiced as collage.
Blood Dungeon
Messhof's Blood Dungeon, a platforming autoshooter, arrives Aug. 25
Mark Essen drew it himself again: a weekend Game Maker sketch, animated on a $50 tablet in parked cars, grown over years into a bullet heaven you parkour through.
baby steps
Bennett Foddy's Games Taste Like Gasoline
The Baby Steps game designer reflects on jadedness, embodiment, and building a failson from two decades of human movement
Playlist
What to Play This Weekend: July 17
A ripping roaring ride through the Underworld
Playlist
What to Play This Weekend: June 4
Dance my pain away
Podcast
Your Body Is Being Compressed
Lisa Jamhoury on Lossy, Grief, and the Digital Body
digital body
So It Goes
Lisa Jamhoury's Lossy is a memorial to the physical body in the age of the digital body—and a reckoning with what we lose when we let ourselves be averaged.
Playlist
April 23: What to Play This Weekend
Something martial, something masculine