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A 1980s-Style Game Takes You Through a Wikipedia Rabbit Hole

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 22, 2017August 3, 2021

Wikipedia: The Text Adventure by Kevan Davis turns Wikipedia’s data into a pixelated game that you navigate through typed directions.

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A Designer’s Game About Arranged Marriages, Inspired by Her Own Journey

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 22, 2017August 21, 2017

In Nashra Balagamwala’s board game, players are teenage girls pursued by an aunty who wants to marry them to any boy she can locate.

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Join the “League of Lonely Geologists” on a Digital Quest for Strange Rocks

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 4, 2017August 3, 2021

The League of Lonely Geologists is a game of finding rocks, sharing them with strangers, and hurling them into a mysterious space portal.

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A Game Challenges You to Find the Folks Hidden in Hand-Drawn Environments

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 24, 2017August 3, 2021

Hidden Folks is a hand-drawn game of discovery by Adriaan de Jongh and Sylvain Tegroeg where you find hidden people and objects in an illustrated world.

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A Haunting Game of Survival Set During the 2014 Israel–Gaza Conflict

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 21, 2017August 3, 2021

Liyla and the Shadows of War is a game set during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, in which you attempt to protect a young girl through the raging battle.

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Disrupt and Then Destroy the World with a Dystopian Startup Simulator

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 2, 2017August 3, 2021

In the game The Founder, you build the most disruptive, innovative, synergized startup in the world, but your success destroys the planet in the process.

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Paint a Lost Past in a Game Inspired by Irish Folklore

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 9, 2016December 9, 2016

“Scéal” is a game on a ghost’s journey that unfolds like a storybook, its painting-like animation inspired by Irish folklore.

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Urban Sprawl and Its Perfect Palm Trees Haunt This Eerie Game

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 25, 2016August 3, 2021

Carl Burton’s “Islands: Non-Places” is an interactive exploration into the strangeness of the mass-produced modern world.

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Searching for a Shaman in a Hand-Painted Video Game

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 25, 2016November 28, 2016

Teku Studios spent four years hand-painting a watercolor world for their game Candle, in which players decode puzzles through clues embedded in the art.

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The Unsung Woman Artist Behind Your Tarot Cards

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 26, 2016August 25, 2021

In 1909, Pamela Colman Smith collaborated with occultist A. E. Waite on the most popular tarot deck of the 20th century.

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An Interactive Story That Prompts You to Speak an Endangered Aboriginal Language

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 18, 2016August 3, 2021

Only three fluent speakers of Marra remain. ‘My Grandmother’s Lingo’ is an interactive animation that asks users to speak words from this endangered Aboriginal language.

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Be a Better Robert Moses in Games that Deconstruct His Legacy

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 7, 2016October 7, 2016

A competition challenged developers to reinterpret a biography of the “master builder” as interactive experiences.

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Watch Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s Film Retrospective at the National Museum of the American Indian
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Watch Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s Film Retrospective at the National Museum of the American Indian

The museum celebrates the artist’s work in film over two decades with three free screenings followed by a conversation with Niro in NYC on October 7.

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