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.

welcome 2 furcon 3005 – wintosha, KA | zine | Christopher Farmer

you can take the furry out of war… but you can never take the war out of a furry.

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.

the earth is a better person than me: what do you want, player?

I have had Kara Stone’s game the earth is a better person than me on my desktop for about 2 years now. I only played it once, the day before yesterday. Why did it take so long? I do know the answer to that, but it’s not one I like. I was scared. Scared to […]

Return of the Obra Dinn: Trash, boring, Orientalist crap

Return of the Obra Dinn really overestimates how much I’m willing to sympathise with a member of the East India Company