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.

News

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.

baby steps

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

Playlist

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

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

Brute Horse

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

Currently Making

I Want to Drag It as Long as Possible

Two decades of self-published comics taught Decadence Comics to take a deep breath. Their first game, Rhizomatic Compound, is built to slow you down.

Playlist

What to Play: July 24th

Honk honk, beep beep

intersections

Ok, fine, let's talk some more about penalty kicks

A reader comment sparked an interesting idea

Email

The end of the world isn't so bad

Plus a defense contractor dreams of drones

playgrounds

Playground Safety is the Enemy of Joy

Artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi bends Lagos security piping into playgrounds, arguing that risk, not safety, is what makes play matter.

Mitchell Chan

Playlist Session with Mitchell Chan [Members-Only]

The Toronto-based artists and game designer joins me for a members-only chat

Playlist

What to Play This Weekend: July 17

A ripping roaring ride through the Underworld