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.

The Shadow Pricing of Forget-Me-Not

Jun 26, 2026 13 min read Forget-Me-Not

How meaningless are the products or services you cultivate in satirical clicker games, in comparison to irreplaceable things like a livable environment?

Home is a Multiverse - An Interview with Sonya Mwambu and Nada El-Omari about +1-home

Apr 16, 2026 10 min read 24 Killers

Phoenix interviews the artist duo working on the ongoing project +1-home, a multimedia art installation that shows how the concept of home is multifarious and based in kinship across time and space.

Home is not an Enclosure - A Reflection

Mar 4, 2026 6 min read 24 Killers

The polluted island setting of 24 Killers is an effective microcosm for what the interrelationship of home and community could be like. The driver for this speculation is the game's absurdism.

IF's Retrofuturist Roots

Nov 4, 2025 9 min read

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".

A Conversation with Nathalie Lawhead

Sep 22, 2025 26 min read IF issue

Nathalie Lawhead joined us on Zoom to talk about their work, interactive fiction, internet subcultures, social media and lots more.