It Doesn’t Matter If Anyone Exists or Not
More ➜You encounter so many people every day, online and off-, that it is almost impossible to be alone. Now, thanks to computers, those people might not even be real. […] Link
A Unique Perspective on the Making of Stalker The Testimony of a Mechanic Toiling Away under Tarkovsky’s Guidance
More ➜Named by the British Film Institute as one of the fifty greatest movies of all time, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 science fiction masterpiece called Stalker is, among many other things, a one-of-a-kind filmwatching experience. […] Link
Kentucky Route Zero TV Edition
More ➜Kentucky Route Zero is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky. […] Link
“Making a ‘Horribly Depressed’ Computer” by Alan Watts
“Making a ‘Horribly Depressed’ Computer” by Alan Watts
More ➜Netflix’s Maniac has a distinctively retro vibe. The producers wanted to create an actual mainframe that blinked and talked, so they hired Alan to build and animate it in less than a month. His experience was as crazy as the show itself.
This is Not my Beautiful House Examining the Desktop Metaphor 1980-1995
More ➜The primary research for this essay was completed with support of the Media Archaeology Lab as an on-site resident in January of 2019. In the 1970s, the personal electronics market was experiencing a revolution. […] Link
AI Dungeon 2
I don’t have much time to write about this at the moment because I’m in finals week, but this is the most amazing thing I have seen in a long time. AI text generation modeling classic text adventures that absolutely works, making the text parser completely reactive and creating dreamlike open-ended game experiences.
More ➜Fantastic Arcade News
AUSTIN: This month’s East Austin Studio Tour will include a mega-restrospective of Fantastic Arcade commissioned arcade cabinets, with artist designed playrooms for each cabinet. Not to be missed
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