In the 1917 board game “Suffragetto,” two players compete as either police or suffragettes to defend their political bases.
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Digitally Deface Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye
Have you ever wanted to throw a piano or screeching cat at Le Corbusier’s pristinely white 1931 Villa Savoye in France?
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Dealing with Death in an Evocative Game about Cancer
“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.
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Digital Distractions: Designing a Subway and Pruning a Tree
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!).
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Do Not Pass “Bo”: Archaeologists Unearth 2,300-Year-Old Board Game in China
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
In Layers of Fear, a new game by the Poland-based Bloober Team, you are an artist who has gone completely insane.
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Digital Distractions: ‘Twin Peaks’ Dance-Off, Skull Glitches, and an 18th-Century Opera Puzzle
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.
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Oblivious Games Company Turns Slave Trade into Tetris
After a social media uproar, the Denmark-based Serious Games Interactive removed a “Slave Tetris” mini-game from their Playing History: Slave Trade.
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Digital Distractions: Sleepwalking, Glitches, and Junk Mail
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
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
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?”
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Slicing Up Eyeballs in a Surrealist Game
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.