Series: Snapshots at 27

July 2020: A post a day for 9 days, because time is strange now, and the world is changing.

  • Not a Gamer: Tiny Echo

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    In Tiny Echo, you play as a one-eyed entity wandering the bowels of a blighted land, delivering mail to spirits.

  • Not A Gamer: missed messages

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    Indie game developer Angela He’s missed messages sets you up to fail, and that’s a good thing.

  • Rest

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    The relentless hustle of startup culture, or the crunch of game development, or whatever synonym other tech-adjacent industries like to use for the endless grind of work, all rest on the metaphor of the worker as a single-minded machine.

  • Tangible

    “Data is time-sensitive.” Do we ever actually own anything digital?

  • Purity

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    There’s a popular tendency to view technology as an “objective” field, “purer” and somehow more essential for it.