Do the games Earthworm Gym, Lizard Designer Pro, Vin Diesel’s Weasel Easel, Silent Butcher, or Wrestlechess intrigue you? If so, then this book is for you.
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Efficient Roadway or Gridlocked Nightmare? The Choice is Yours in this Highway Engineering Game
Freeways by Justin Smith is an urban planning simulator where players construct complex highway systems while avoiding traffic jams.
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Drive a Hand-Drawn Tram for Cats in This Illustrated Game
Artist Alexander Perrin’s Short Trip is a hand-drawn interactive game in which players drive a trolley for cats.
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You’re a Medici. Can You Support the Renaissance’s Best Artists, or Will You Be Exiled?
ARTé: Mecenas from Triseum is a game on the economies of art, set in the tumultuous Italian Renaissance, in which you are a Medici patron.
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Stroll a Fauvist Shore in a Digital Tribute to André Derain
FAUVISTa is a digital exploration of the Fauvist colors and brushstrokes in André Derain’s 1905 “Bateaux à Collioure.”
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A 1980s-Style Game Takes You Through a Wikipedia Rabbit Hole
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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Live a Year in Virtual Solitude in Walden, the Game
Walden, a Game transforms Henry David Thoreau’s famed book into a thoughtful digital experience.
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A Browser Game Recreates the Tedium of a 1990s Office Job
Pippin Barr’s game It is as if you were doing work simulates the distractions and mundane tasks of the office, imagined for a future when work is replaced by machines.
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Join the “League of Lonely Geologists” on a Digital Quest for Strange Rocks
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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An Archivist Sets Out to Save the Material History of Video Games
Launched in February by Frank Cifaldi, the Video Game History Foundation is racing to preserve ephemeral gaming material and the physical documentation of video games.
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Explore a Virtual Museum of Digital Water
Pippin Barr’s v r 3 examines one of the biggest challenges in game design: rendering water.
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A Game Challenges You to Find the Folks Hidden in Hand-Drawn Environments
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.