Phoenix Simms

There's an aesthetic emphasis on hand-wrought analog work in Humble Grove's A Line Held Tight. I mulled on th…

How meaningless are the products or services you cultivate in satirical clicker games, in comparison to irrep…

"It feels as if all the information in the world gets passed through that little black box." - What can we le…

Art in a globalized world is about coexistence and the collective effort making meaning. What does that mean …

Phoenix interviews the artist duo working on the ongoing project +1-home, a multimedia art installation that …

"In all of her work there's a deep sense of care and respect for how people, both individually and collective…

The polluted island setting of 24 Killers is an effective microcosm for what the interrelationship of home an…

I miss AA and AAA being unabashedly bizarro in their design, whether they're story-driven or not. A state of …

So, I replayed Silent Hill: Homecoming for the first time since it came out when I was in high school. A lot …

I wrote here about different design aspects of Blue Prince we found evocative. For me, it was the references …

Amping up retro technological friction encourages the player to decipher an IF game's interface as if it is a…

Nathalie Lawhead joined us on Zoom to talk about their work, interactive fiction, internet subcultures, socia…

My latest for Unwinnable, musing about the concepts of cosiness, wholesomeness, and how these terms are becom…

Back on my voice over labour rights and gen-AI grind. Ever since researching for the piece I wrote for Contai…

At its core, AOTK has an anti-establishment philosophy, much like the avant garde. Especially with its pencha…

How do you design a truly solarpunk game? Kara Stone knows the way. Known Mysteries is the first solar-powere…

Grace and I discuss curating an exhibit focused on artists' games and how terminology does a lot for both pla…

There's a curious folding of time and space, or at least our personal perception of time and space when it co…

Lovely Lady RPG's strongest narrative exists in the concept of the void, but the game's self-aware tone often…

There's a poetic quality to having deliberate pauses within a game world.

Do status ailments and their treatments in games perpetuate toxic mythology about diseases and disabilities?

Heisei Pistol Show is a time capsule of a game. One that intersects with the Menhera community's philosophy o…

OVERWHELM is less about punishment and more about vindication. Vindication that sometimes even perseverance, …

When you strictly define games as a commercial product you devalue the prominent place games and their rhetor…