Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To consider a virtual album review of “Day Of The locust” by the mighty UK based Ambient Death Metal supergroup Cockney Voodoo Beaver: 5876 x 5602 .jpg Side A Where Did I Put That Surgical Stapler? (4:20) Extra Cable Ties (10:22) Grandma’s Death Bed (15:00) Hallucinogenic Sweat Beads (2:44) Holy Meta-Geographic Needlepoint Flux (12:30) … Read more
RND/ To consider how something about Davy Wreden faintly grates on your tits and maybe always has. A scenario, in which the LA videogames publisher Annapurna Interactive had a showcase in 2021. Despite being entirely happy, smooth, slick and obviously well produced, its overall atmosphere of patchouli scented Glade Plugin whiteness and whimsy felt cloying. … Read more
RND/ To consider game designer Jonathan Blowhard’s “Witness”: Part of the Hypertography One Exhibit The result is the feeling of a game that’s depressingly lacking in energy, heart, and soul. There isn’t even any music. The island may be pretty to look at in screenshots, but in motion it is utterly lifeless. The developer’s sheer … Read more
RND/ scenes from the asset flip – the classic skate man intense rescue – hypertography from the never released ‘welgestyle’ / ‘crapolaware’ classic part of the Hypertography One Exhibit in developer ring with big jim sterling aka skate man intense rescue goty edition garish digital goty rat to simultaneously highlight celebrate conceptually flag quote spite … Read more
RND/ to consider Pathologic set in Skyrim Part of the Hypertography One Exhibit research space idea/ recreate slow creeping quote strange vibe flavor of pathologic – x flat quote bleached atmosphere of sinister desperation hallucinatory existential horror in skyrim – with ambient wind noise example background story / context ey called nigel hornswagger mildly dirty … Read more