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 editionthis 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.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?there is something very special and precious to me about certain objects. PlayStation 2 platformers of an excessive jank and sparseness. usually European. in my collection i’ve now completed three over a series of about 7 years. they are Evil Twin: Cyprien’s Chronicles, Gift, and now Portal Runner. Portal Runner is a game about Toys, […]
Read More portal runner: beauty in abject reflection.i get home from the funeral and try to play the last chapter of Dead Space Remake (2023). i fall asleep and wake up the console having timed itself out
Read More OMG is that a Dead Body?kid covers their eye with a hand, closes it shut, pretends that in their hand is the eye. puts the eye in their mouth. swallows it.
Read More eat the body of the person next to youWhere’s Karin? Where is she? She’s supposed to be here, to give me a check-up and fill these tranq darts.
Read More Brute Forcing the Medical, Doc: Cybersleuth Puzzle Design
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