altered & alternative experiences in art
there’s a choice between two different types of car. fast and smooth and big and chunky. you pick the fast and smooth type. if you start having sex at the start line you get a bonus to your speed. something has to go in a hole somewhere. it’s a penetrative sport. you can argue semantics […]
Read More Gun Citythere is in my basement a talking skull. i am sure it can talk. and it’s not just i’m imagining it. i showed my partner and they agree. it’s real. i also showed my friend. and they think it’s real too. so i’m certain. and i did tests on the room. no gas leak. it’s […]
Read More talking skull in a basement. abasement talking skull.Thirteen Doors. They all lead into one chamber. In its centre an arched staircase entrance, down into an underground vault. A hall of grand size. Here is laid out a feast. For thirteen people. Each is served by a waiter at their seat. A kitchen staffed of thirteen cooks the meal. On the walls are […]
Read More Harper’s Reality Feastthe 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 […]
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