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Brain Scratch
Screenshot from the game Babbdi, where a low-poly character hunches over a table with blank eyes and two teeth in a concrete room with someone sleeping on a bare mattress in the back, saying "we will get out of babbdi"

Bibbdi Babbdi Boo

By Steven Nguyen Scaife • February 13th, 2023

I’m constantly struck by how little a game needs in order to evoke places and processes, how crude its materials can appear without compromising clarity of vision.

Brain Scratch
The title screen for Apocryphauna, featuring the text of the game's title in a pulsating, off-putting font

Lonely Heart of the Cards Club

By Steven Nguyen Scaife • December 14th, 2022

The one Lord apparently has better things to do than stop the scavenger hunt for a forbidden trading card collection.

A Mandala of Space Bullets

By Levi Rubeck • June 27th, 2018

In bullet-hell, tactics, and life, man plans and god/nature/the universe laughs. You can drill those fingers or try to anticipate every possible outcome, but in the end we are flawed beings living at the whims of the cosmos.

A Tumultuous Smoke Break

By Levi Rubeck • March 28th, 2018

Emma Kidwell’s Got a Light? gracefully outlines the confusing and powerful internal combustion engine of sentiment, that heavy fire that drives us all to smoking and other activities hazardous to our health.

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