IF's Retrofuturist Roots
Amping up retro technological friction encourages the player to decipher an IF game's interface as if it is an alien device with its own "emotional language".
Phoenix
An Atlantic Canadian cryptid who subsists off of pastries, games, and SFF books. She also writes a lot of games criticism for various publications, most notably Unwinnable and Paste Games.
A Conversation with Nathalie Lawhead
Nathalie Lawhead joined us on Zoom to talk about their work, interactive fiction, internet subcultures, social media and lots more.
Killing Interactive Art…and Loving It!
At its core, AOTK has an anti-establishment philosophy, much like the avant garde. Especially with its penchant for remixing, and therefore subverting, bourgeois expectations of art objects and texts...
An Interview With SEQUENCEBREAK// Curator Nilson Carroll
SEQUENCEBREAK// is an in-person exhibit of "artist's games," showing until June 28, 2025 at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. It includes work by Stephen Gillmurphy (thecatamites,
Consigning Meaning to the Void
Lovely Lady RPG's strongest narrative exists in the concept of the void, but the game's self-aware tone often sells itself short.