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Playing at Women’s Liberation, World War I, and Colonialism in Vintage Board Games

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 15, 2016February 29, 2016

In the 1917 board game “Suffragetto,” two players compete as either police or suffragettes to defend their political bases.

Posted inArt

Digitally Deface Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 27, 2016August 3, 2021

Have you ever wanted to throw a piano or screeching cat at Le Corbusier’s pristinely white 1931 Villa Savoye in France?

Posted inArt

Dealing with Death in an Evocative Game about Cancer

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 13, 2016August 3, 2021

“We grieve in silence,” game maker Ryan Green says at one point in That Dragon, Cancer, an interactive experience based on the illness and eventual death of his son, Joel.

Posted inArt

Digital Distractions: Designing a Subway and Pruning a Tree

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 9, 2015August 3, 2021

For December, we’ve got a psychedelic plane ride tribute to a man who died in a crash, a paper craft city, subway line design, and tree pruning (it’s fun!).

Posted inIn Brief

Do Not Pass “Bo”: Archaeologists Unearth 2,300-Year-Old Board Game in China

by Laura C. Mallonee November 25, 2015December 1, 2015

It includes a 14-face die carved from an animal tooth, 21 rectangular game pieces featuring painted numbers, and a broken tile that once made up part of the game board.

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Play a Tormented Painter in a Video Game of Creeping Terror

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 29, 2015August 3, 2021

In Layers of Fear, a new game by the Poland-based Bloober Team, you are an artist who has gone completely insane.

Posted inArt

Digital Distractions: ‘Twin Peaks’ Dance-Off, Skull Glitches, and an 18th-Century Opera Puzzle

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 7, 2015August 3, 2021

Walk through a glitchy realm of skulls and flowers, have a Twin Peaks dance battle in the Black Lodge, alter an alternative reality, and experience an 18th-century opera as a puzzle.

Posted inNews

Oblivious Games Company Turns Slave Trade into Tetris

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 3, 2015September 22, 2015

After a social media uproar, the Denmark-based Serious Games Interactive removed a “Slave Tetris” mini-game from their Playing History: Slave Trade.

Posted inArt

Digital Distractions: Sleepwalking, Glitches, and Junk Mail

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 2, 2015August 3, 2021

In a new monthly series, we’re highlighting a few games, apps, and interactive digital experiences recommended for the art crowd. For September, here’s a simulation of an Italian Renaissance painting guild, a Surrealist puzzler, a glitchy Pac-Man, and the most thought-provoking game on junk mail yet.

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Be the Bolshevik Wedge in a Game Inspired by El Lissitzky’s 1919 Propaganda Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 15, 2015May 19, 2015

In the game Lissitzky’s Revenge, you are the tiny red triangle against the mighty white circle depicted in El Lissitzky’s 1919 Suprematist poster “Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge.”

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A Card Game to Debate the Absurd Extremes of Cultural Opinions

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 1, 2015May 2, 2015

A new card game throws together the highs and lows of culture, from Wagner’s Ring Cycle to the video game Doom, asking players to debate essential questions like, “Which is a sign of the Apocalypse?” or “Which expresses the inexpressible?”

Posted inArt

Slicing Up Eyeballs in a Surrealist Game

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 24, 2015August 3, 2021

The startling 1929 surrealist silent film Un Chien Andalou made by Luis Buñuel in collaboration with Salvador Dalí is now a deeply unsettling video game.

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