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Who Do You Let In: What to Play, August 7

Careful what you let through the door.

Do Good Games Taste Like Gasoline? [Podcast]

Danny Snelson on Bennett Foddy’s gasoline problem, a school rebuilt as a Halo map, and three games worth knowing this week.

A weathered wooden door stands open in a dark corridor whose walls are patterned with repeating faces

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley releases I DIDNT REALISE YOU THOUGHT LIKE THAT as a free browser game

The next chapter of Serpentine's THE DELUSION imagines every hostile online comment made physically real, and asks who you would open the door for.

A cartoon character stands in a street built from mismatched textures and glitched storefronts in TEXTURETOWN

Aidan Strong's TEXTURETOWN runs Toontown's source code with the assets of three other dead MMOs

Text from Club Penguin, sound from Pirates of the Caribbean Online, textures from FusionFall: digital preservation practiced as collage.

A small character fires streams of bullets across a platform-filled dungeon room in Blood Dungeon

Messhof's Blood Dungeon, a platforming autoshooter, arrives Aug. 25

Mark Essen drew it himself again: a weekend Game Maker sketch, animated on a $50 tablet in parked cars, grown over years into a bullet heaven you parkour through.

A silhouetted figure walks through a dark underpass toward bright light in a black-and-white scene from Signet City

Gareth Martin reveals Signet City, a first-person fungalpunk RPG

The Citizen Sleeper creator casts you as a parasite in a monochrome 1980s British industrial city, with dice checks swayed by your host's emotions.

An orange, many-toothed creature with sun-ray spikes stands in a green underwater thicket.

doku_zen built Balming Tiger's "Janjan" video out of stop-motion puppets

Photographed puppets standing up in a 3D scene as flat cards, the same arrangement Doom used in 1993.

Game Type: Capture the School

When the power cut the Halo match short, eight teenagers carried its rules across the road and turned their empty high school into the map.

Bennett Foddy's Games Taste Like Gasoline

The Baby Steps game designer reflects on jadedness, embodiment, and building a failson from two decades of human movement

A Walk and The Talk: What to Play, July 31

Grief and routine come to pass in this week's Playlist selection

KS Radar: A man and his horse look for a vet

Plus stop-motion goodness from Jack King-Spooner and a bevy of updates from Alice Bucknell

Calling Off the Engagement

How a zombie game pulls me in and pushes me away

Games, play, and culture with Jamin Warren

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