Radical Games Against the Tyranny of Entertainment
Future? No Thanks! has a trailer and a Steam page. It s Molleindustria s most ambitious project to date. Production started on January 2021 as soon as it became clear that the elections weren t going to be overthrown. It was meant to be a project for the sleepy Biden era, during which thinking about about a better Continue reading "Coming Soon: Future? No Thanks!"
Molleindustria is officially and primarily on BlueSky. The Twitter account will remain active for the time being. In addition to it there is a searchable static archive of Tweets from 2010 to 2022 (that is until Musk s takeover). Experience the best possible Twitter.
Meet me at the Workers’ Club is an interactive reconstruction of Alexander Rodchenko s Workers Club. The original installation was created in 1925 to represent the Soviet Union at the Paris World Expo (aka International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts). The interactive experience offers plenty of commentary on the original pieces, on the historical Continue reading "Meet me at…
The New York Times Simulator is out now, free to play from any browser. It works decently on mobile too. It’s a meta news game about how corporate media manufacture consent for genocide, minimize police misconduct, and serve the ruling class. The content of the game is literally “ripped from the headlines” in that it uses Continue reading "The New York Times Simulator Release Notes"
The Green New Deal Simulator is out and free to play on all the main operating systems. It’s a spiritual sequel of the Democratic Socialism Simulator, in that they share the same visual style, simple drag-and-drop interactions, and short-term practical utopianism. When it comes to climate change, we are well past the “raising awareness” phase Continue reading "Green New Deal Simulator Release…
A 5 minute video about testing the limits of the critically acclaimed medieval strategy game. Can you replace nobles with republics, dismantle the papacy, and create an ecofeminist society in the AD 1200? Yes, yes, and yes.
Rules: 1. Start from a random Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random 2. Click on the link that might take you closer to the Capitalism page 3. Repeat 2 until you get to Capitalism Each click = 1 point. The player with the lowest score wins. Variants / house rules: *A page mentioning capitalism counts even without the Continue reading "El Problema es el Capitalismo: the Game"
This is the transcript of an artist talk I gave about the end-of-life of Adobe Flash, and digital art preservation in general. It was part of Gone in a Flash , a series of events organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery and Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre. You can also watch the video here or check Continue reading "Gone with a Flash (talk transcript)"
This is the transcript of a talk I gave at the 2020 Play Festival. The festival normally takes place in Hamburg but was moved online due to COVID. It s a sequel to my previous Indiepocalypse talk. The Google Slides can be found here , a pixelated video recording is here. Today I’m gonna talk about Continue reading "Games Without Players"
Rules Roberts is a print-and-play educational roleplaying game to learn Robert s Rule of Order. Even if it s a spoof of Dungeons Dragons, R R is more of a storytelling game: it s light on mechanics, there are no dice rolls or complex stats, and the Dungeon Master doesn t have to prepare any material nor read Continue reading "Rules Roberts release notes"