the end of the music

sits on the floor. the cd is skipping in the disc tray. what was playing? the soundtrack to something. some game or other. came with someone’s copy of a special edition. came out of a bargain box at a charity shop. fifty p per item, or five items for a pound fifty. stardream’s awakening. or […]

on the way to work notes/on the settee after work notes: 3 games

games finished in the past couple days leap year: the music from this platformer with a malicious approach to jumping is so delightful. i think that, in designing, this could have been more frustrating, but thankfully (for me) was just enough pressure to get me to persevere past the first ten minutes. the tightness of […]

frelingstaf’s walk

the old oblong Frelingstaf was out to walk the river was golden and in the sky a cloud on the horizon small like a collection of pus on the lip of the sky the water in the sky won’t fall and the ground is dust dirt what water leaves behind and dry gravel by dirt […]

FALLSTRUKTUR/Automaton Lung – notes on Platforming/Postmodernism

Fallstruktur (2025, PC): a free parkour type game from Stuffed Wombat, Fynn Levy & Rollin’ Barrel… reach the bottom without falling to your demise, across a set of paths, distinct in their shapes and texturing, tied together into a tower, a dream. great, simple and enthralling. criss cross in and out of environmental signification, and […]

they have a million bugs in a strange new reality

a team of scientists just announced this. it’s a world called FleshJacket World and they’re setting up the rules now… So it seems, like in the Game Hypogea, that the new world is mostly in an underground cavern, where you have become a robot whose brain awakes after how long… and then has to, pole […]

foam (2012) & the quantum dream state.

i play the game Foam (download from mirror here) on the suggestion of my dear friend Bagenzo when you see the foam you are in the zone. quantum foam is the theory from the 1950s by John Wheeler that at a base level the universe is foamy rather than smooth. or something. fluctuations. if you […]

reflection on a pirate reality

i spent a month as a pirate ship operator. february-april, working on the spring holidays, about 4 weeks all told. on my internet with friends i call this pirate reality. start at 945. end at 445. most days. or 1045. some days. that’s between 6-7 hours. in march i had maybe 2 shifts. i had no […]

etherbridge rock

stick in the mud writing names of the people who had been invented for this trip. Otherwise Pillar and Horsestead Thermedgenise. friends who never existed. she leans down to the dirt to whisper a secret. how heavy is her heart here on etherbridge rock. lighter now maybe. lighter now. the blade is around four inches […]

there’s a killer on the moon

you are sitting in the dentist’s chair. they are drilling a hole into your tooth. fingers in your mouth and the sensation reminds you of something. you are sitting in a chair beside your counsellor at school. you are nervous. you are telling them about what you like to do and about how there’s a […]

necroplasma (catch the sweating man)

catch the sweating man if you can. he’s shed his clothes in the halls of the ship. the boiler suit. the underwear. both stained with blood and the green bile. the things that he did before you began to see, patterned marble. a panel is split and the wires pulled out in the direction of […]