altered & alternative experiences in art
the game of Malice (2004, ps2) is a game of collecting the keys and gears. you do this to kill god. once you kill god, you end the game. along the way you deliver girl power type dialogue in the face of a world of mild innuendo/objectification and edgy type jokes about worms on welfare […]
Read More Malice’s resurrection mechanic. grey world of spirits.this is an update to this piece from 2021 about how some games, even if people like them, i found hard to get through or care about. it’s on the request of a friend who wanted to see it updated and i’m not doing much rn so yeah. in the og i made a statement […]
Read More a list of games i stopped playing even if you like them 2025 editionit’s 16.4c° in this room, the humidity is 62 percent. on the keyboard on my phone are these symbols ♤♡◇♧ that’s enough for me to write out a deck. i could do that with words too. the letters j, k, q, and a have specific meaning. if you can do that then you can make […]
Read More redesigning pack of cards. 30 card pack of the people.this is about oikospiel, David Kanaga’s game what is an opera of absurdism about the systems of making a game. i was inspired to revisit the game after attending this interesting talk of Rob Gallagher about the mid-late 2010s ‘artgame’ and their relationship to the phenomenon of ‘gamergate’. what inspired me was hearing more about […]
Read More screenshots i liked off of oikospiel.one. ice level two. burger level three. house level four. jungle level five. carpark level six. astronaut level seven. ancient castle level eight. fire level nine. sewer level ten. facility level eleven. port level twelve. hospital level thirteen. garden level fourteen. temple ruins level fifteen. city level this game was called 15 levels. and you […]
Read More all 15 levels. what is a game and who cares.i lay in the dark room dreaming of a thing to play. it’s perhaps a red ball that goes across a course, of obstacles. and they were placed there by the scientist. because the scientist wanted to study the red ball, for its abilities. and i begin to think about how the rain outside would […]
Read More i lay in the dark. red ball.Hot Pig Jump is a special type of game. I’ve watched two people play this game. Two streamers on the Radio TV Solutions crew. Trog and Holly Hollowtones. It’s a beautiful existential collage. All animal life has been annihilated, aside from the one pig, who “in his solitude, vows to rebel against god.” This is […]
Read More Hot Pig Jump! and How to Run a Successful Games Website Business (or How to Don’t)20 years have gone by since i got disappointed that a rayman game was actually a minigame collection about french minions. at the time the minions didn’t exist, so imagine the concept but french bunnies. now today i play a mario game where ubisoft’s rabbits are in there as well. it’s about killing them but […]
Read More rabbids. mario is with them. so what?the valley was theatrically empty, like a set waiting for curtain rise. yellow stripes of bushes, thick with thorns and insect and the smell of a sweet decay line the hilly sides. a lightly grazed carpet of green with moss covered rock protrusions that is the most of it. pillar 12 looked down at the […]
Read More hideous.criminal.ancientin a tunnel under the river there’s a tunnel under the river. things disappear and play double. you close a video source and there was a second one playing underneath it the whole time, in sync and so under the radar. in the tunnel is a tunnel. it was made again. bombed tunnel means make […]
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