a list of games I didn’t finish even though they are acclaimed because they were boring, annoying or too hard.

a lot is made of sticking with a game, or any artistic media, by people who found certain deeply rewarding experiences with it, and yeah, sometimes that’s legit, but it’s also totally legit to just, not. With narcolepsy and ADHD I find it hard to do anything if its not plenty interesting, and if I’m […]

A day in the second life

A day out touring the galleries and e-girl stores in Second Life

GlitchOut GameTools: Kate Labs

A fun toolset for making worlds in 3D using the assets and functions from the games of Kate Barrett.

the untouchable zoo

there was a game called the untouchable zoo. you had to play it if you had been outside for too long. they would show you all these animals and then ask you to touch the screen. until you got it, that you couldn’t touch what was on screen. but some kids didn’t get it because […]

Fluke of the Narwal – Halo 2’s hit cover band

Fluke of the Narwal’s sell-out show must have been something, sweaty bodies crashing together in an embrace of live music that lives on into the 26th century.

oh fisherfarm diabolous. poem.

miles over the root beam
were the sandcreepers
and the road bird,
verdigreen,
squashed under tire racks

a morbid dusk

reflections on designing for reflection in Pol Clarissou’s ‘orchids to dusk’

Behind Closed Doors in The Stanley Parable

a game all about closed doors. you open some of them. find the architecture of the experience behind.

through the eye. poem

aiming. Serotonin burger for the gills, push meat in between the sills. Planet made of light, I tell you, thinking of the thin king who rules my 15 hearts.

No Man’s Sky: Through A Screen, Dully

In Dick’s writing the idea of bleak, desolate planets were the horror that the people in his worlds were trying to escape from, now they are the sandboxes in which we play.