PS2 COLLAGES ZINE

collages made from an envelope of cut up game manuals and covers for games on the ps2. those found in the boxes of the games. blue plastic and glossy paper that i sent to a recycling plant to clear space, so that i was left with discs and the choice interesting scraps i found in […]

serlidge hedge and the red roundel

old quarry worn wall by the shaking of the earth the machines that brought down the house and left and the house was how old? we don’t know for we just placed it there, among the hedges overlooking serlidge pit see that when we think a think we make it real and real as it […]

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 […]