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Sin Like It’s the 16th Century in a Game that Remixes Renaissance Art
Forgive me, for I have sinned. I peeped at a lady's ankle through an open window and carved an idol in my own image.
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A Video Game That Tailors Its Terrors to Your Anxiety
"Go to your happy place," the game attendant told me as the digital kitchen on my screen filled with milk and I was drowning.
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In a Game, Foraging for Mushrooms with a Grandmother Who Listens
Lieve Oma is a game in which you hunt for mushrooms with your grandmother beneath trees saturated with autumnal colors. It's also about how a simple conversation can indicate so much more about a relationship, where the words unsaid echo as much as those spoken aloud.
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Photography Acts as a Weapon in a Game About the Iranian Revolution
In 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, the streets of Tehran are combustive, resistance smoldering from tensely linked groups that share a dissatisfaction with the Shah.
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A Video Game Inspired by Philip K. Dick's Sci-Fi Worlds
The developers of Californium call their game a "love letter to Philip K. Dick."
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A Digital Story Leads You Through Italy's WWII Resistance
To mark the 70th anniversary of Italy's 1945 liberation from fascism, the Milan-based duo We Are Müesli developed an interactive story based on the country's 20 months of partisan resistance.
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The First Museum Retrospective for a Video Game Artist Explores Why the Medium Matters
Whether a five-minute walk through one man's life or a maze that would take two millennia to explore, Jason Rohrer creates meaningful experiences that could only exist as games.
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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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19th-Century French Caricatures Reinvented in a Game About Bird Lawyers
Aviary Attorney is a game based on the caricatures of 19th-century French artist J. J. Grandville, who skewered the aristocrats and politicians of his time by illustrating society figures as animals.
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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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Digital Distractions: Tweeting as a Bird and the Awkwardness of AIM
For November's Digital Distractions, journey through Twitter as a rotund bird on a mission, relive the awkward AIM conversations of the early 2000s, and give a monster a makeover.