When I was younger, I used to play The Incredible Machine quite a lot, and after a while I got the idea that I could use it to compose little "songs". Most of the time they didn't come out very ...Read More
Office. A place of productivity, social interaction. And, as all of you know who are forced by sardonic co-workers to read the newest "Dilbert" at lunch break and accordingly ROFL out of politeness not to fall prey to office mobbing, ...Read More
Old men love to tell stories. About how they got that girl that is now your grandma, how they caught the biggest fish and, of course, how they won the war. Those memories rarely reflect the actual truth, but how ...Read More
Mystical mathematics, exploration of the simplest geometrical shapes possible and the eventual breakthrough from polychrome to monochrome. Speed by Kurage is clearly a suprematist gameplay experiment. If you are able to memorize and distinguish circular shapes and count one-digit-numbers, you ...Read More
Artists have to strive to see things from a distant angle. They literally have to remove themselves from their surroundings while creating, to reach the degree of abstraction that is necessary to create something meaningful. Yes, and that is why, ...Read More
Jason Nelson is a poet. His poetry mutates and hides behind interactive media, almost gamelike games and installations that combine such diverse subjects as ancient witchcraft, explosive weapons, breakfast cereal and the weather. Among his efforts is a remarkably playable ...Read More
Yes, I am also going to do the Wargames introduction, although it is so obvious that at least 20 websites must have used it. I love Wargames, it is the only hacker movie I have seen in my whole life, ...Read More
Conway's Game of Life has been used to describe many different phenomena: Evolution of consciousness and free will, spontaneous design or creation in absence of a designer; but never has it occured to anybody that racism could also evolve from ...Read More
A duck with an awful streak of bad luck. Three nosy nephews. A beautiful cousin. And fat uncle Jubalon? Yeah, you almost fell for it there, but this is not the Disney universe, this is Life of D. Duck by ...Read More
Did you know that Czech had a word for "a root or a piece of wood that resembles a creature"? Well, here it is, Samorost. The travels of a little gnome through a hyperspace of roots and moss, accompanied by ...Read More