Hyper//Echo is a web-based “zone” where players are invited to explore the virtual space, and leave something behind — namely buildings and messages for other players to discover. Over the course of the 3-month exhibition, these artefacts gradually decay (buildings become ruins, messages appear as “broken links”) and become overgrown. Players are encouraged to return to “maintain” their and others’ buildings, as they eventually become irreparable if left abandoned for too long.

Hyper//Echo

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A browser-based art game made in response to Marwa Helal’s poem ")[[:”.’.,:]]( Remixed".

Aleph: A Life

Avoid the gigant random stuff using your spaceship!

Sequoia

Alex Tomkow

Discomfort Zone is a 2D pixel-art narrative game about depression, anxiety disorder, despair, and recovery. The game takes a realistic, un-filtered, and at times uncomfortably personal look at depression and anxiety disorder through the eyes of someone dealing with these conditions, promoting understanding and sharing the experience with a wider audience. The game deals with many themes related to depression and anxiety: worry, loneliness, and self-deprecating thoughts, but also hope and finding the strength, when all seems lost, to keep going.

Discomfort Zone

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Josh Millard

Lexaloffle Games

Spend some time with a depressed, laconic Luigi as he chain smokes and wanders through a crumbling Mushroom Kingdom, ruminating on ontology, ethics, family, identity, and the mistakes he and his brother have made.

Ennuigi

Jordan Magnuson

An experimental, minimalistic microgame about loneliness.

Loneliness

increpare

Queue

An experimental game by Jesper Juul inspired by John Cage's famed musical composition 4:33.

What is the 4:33 of games? Is there a game all around us that we never see? Is there a fundamental characteristic of games?

4:32

Daniel Benmergui

An short, experimental art game by Daniel Benmergui, in which the player manipulates text, characters and objects to change the environment and escape.

Today I Die

Van Sowerwine

You're running late for work. You've got too much on. You're stressed and tense and you desperately dodge your way through friends, bosses and parties in a frantic attempt to hold your life together.
See your stress and depression rise to levels never seen before! Watch yourself collapse then explode! Explore the part of your life you'd rather forget about!
It's all part of the fun of the Nerve Game...

The Nerve Game

Natalie Bookchin

The Intruder is an interactive narrative based on a story by Jorge Luis Borges. The viewer must compete in some rudimentary games to hear, read and see the story. Thoroughly well-observed, and compelling, The Intruder takes about 15 minutes to navigate. The games are not difficult but act as an aid to the narrative and introduce levels of addiction to the telling of the story.

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