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Video Games

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Sculpt the World in the First Nintendo Game Developed by an African Studio

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 3, 2018August 3, 2021

The video game Semblance by the South Africa-based Nyamakop studio has players reshaping a malleable digital world before it petrifies.

Posted inArt

A Video Game Takes You Cross-Country into the Origins of American Folklore

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 4, 2018August 3, 2021

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a game of gathering and sharing stories, which grow and change in the telling.

Posted inNews

A Playable Archive of 74 Retro Games, Including Frogger, Tamagotchi, and Donkey Kong

by Claire Voon April 9, 2018June 15, 2022

The Internet Archive has uploaded emulations of classic games to Handheld History, a free digital library, allowing for old-school experiences on modern computers.

Posted inArt

The Casual Colonialism of Lara Croft and Indiana Jones

Avatar photo by Daniel A. Gross April 6, 2018June 24, 2022

An anthropologist and a historian weigh in on the troubling genre of the archaeological adventure story.

Posted inBooks

A Satiric History of Video Games

by Claire Voon December 1, 2017April 2, 2019

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.

Posted inArt

Efficient Roadway or Gridlocked Nightmare? The Choice is Yours in this Highway Engineering Game

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 23, 2017August 3, 2021

Freeways by Justin Smith is an urban planning simulator where players construct complex highway systems while avoiding traffic jams.

Posted inArt

Drive a Hand-Drawn Tram for Cats in This Illustrated Game

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

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?

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 29, 2017August 3, 2021

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.

Posted inArt

Stroll a Fauvist Shore in a Digital Tribute to André Derain

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 18, 2017March 21, 2022

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

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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Live a Year in Virtual Solitude in Walden, the Game

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 10, 2017August 3, 2021

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

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 18, 2017August 3, 2021

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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