screenshots i liked off of oikospiel.

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 […]

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i lay in the dark. red ball.

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 […]

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Hot Pig Jump! and How to Run a Successful Games Website Business (or How to Don’t)

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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hideous.criminal.ancient

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 […]

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at lopolion’s edge

there is a rose diamond in the ground. it’s like the swordstone. where you don’t get it and if you do you win the ultimate prize. the prize to be lover of eternity. time’s bride. married to ecstatic awakening of matter. if you. unearth the diamond. so if you play the diamond’s game you are […]

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