Laura E. HallHappy Friday! Here's my end-of-the-week roundup, a collection of stuff I've enjoyed lately
Today: pinball, two games, aaand... turning into a pile of dust ⚪✳️👾
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1) A loving tribute to the physicality of pinball and maintenance of the machines
"Pinball is of the body: Why modern tech can't recreate the world under glass"
(I obviously don't agree with their underlying thesis that tech-based games, etc. are "chintzy techno-frippery" but I do love the physicality of a cabinet and embodied play)
2) The wonderful artist Shing Yin Khor (@shing) posted a video from an exhibition at the Prague National Museum that instantly vaporized me. Watch all the way to the end 💀
Watch on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct_ApcyqRK_/
Watch Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sawdustbear/video/7248677064969178411
3) Reddit user dudewithtude42 created an RPG using only three-letter words. Excellent constraint
"Are you new or old? Big or wee? Lax or mad? Fun or dry?"
Thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/comments/14jzd2o/i_made_an_rpg_using_only_threeletter_words/
Play doc here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19HZGmLLae1s97nlWWXlkN0HhL1Fo_Fi8v3wEt3dxV5E/edit
4) Feeling rather like this cat illustration by French illustrator and toy designer André Hellé (1871-1945)
5) How far can you get in this brilliant, torturous password game? (I stalled out at around rule 18)
Most Noble Spork Duelist@lauraehall made it to 20. Poor Paul.