Doc/Undoc
Over the weekend I attended a fantastic reading by Felicia Rice for an exhibition at the Galería de la Raza. Her latest piece is a...
Paperknife
Paperknife is an evocative experimental hypertext game that uses virtual space as a literal interpretation of branching narrative structures. You play as a child psychologist who’s...
Kobo: Buying eBooks Locally
The local Bookshop Santa Cruz is running a pledge drive, asking customers to pledge to buy 1 fewer book from Amazon and buy from...
Lack of Imagination
Mike Cook, the researcher behind the Angelina game-generating AI system, recently spoke at VideoBrains about gamers’ lack of imagination. Gamers, he argues, do not...
Parable of the Polygons
Parable of the Polygons is an interactive blog post by Vi Hart and Nicky Case about bias and self-segregation that effectively shows how even a...
Cloudbuilt
Cloudbuilt almost lost me in the first 10 minutes.
The cursors for the menus on the title screen only appear once you press up...
How to Argue Responsibly
After months now of particularly draining online discussions conducted in bad faith I find myself lately ready to give up on the Internet. Though...
The 7th Saga
As a child, I found The 7th Saga frustrating and severely lacking compared to my beloved Final Fantasy 2. But my grandfather poured hours into the game, and it had always lingered for me as a game grown-ups like. Maybe I would understand when I was older.