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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.
Video Games
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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.
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Disrupt and Then Destroy the World with a Dystopian Startup Simulator
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
"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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Searching for a Shaman in a Hand-Painted Video Game
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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Be a Better Robert Moses in Games that Deconstruct His Legacy
A competition challenged developers to reinterpret a biography of the "master builder" as interactive experiences.
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Build the Most Disruptive Startup Ever in a Dystopian Business Simulator
In "The Founder," a "dystopian startup simulator," you must disrupt markets, innovate nonstop, maybe even go beyond the Earth in wildly expensive rockets.