"The last mile is on makeshift snowboard down the mountainside with a whole-ass wobbling jenga tower strapped to my back, swaying with every carve. I’ll scuttle to the station and dump my load :) , and a new section of the highway system is complete, 3D printed in front of my eyes in seconds.

This is the game to me.

Death Stranding uses these disparate systems wrapped up in a single-player experience to talk about something else entirely: collective connection.

... (W)ithin the realm of games we are rarely asked to build things for people we’ll never meet; for strangers on the internet; for passerbys that simply exist alongside us: sharing the space but never our time. So Death Stranding meets players where they are, and tries to show them what it would mean if they started to."

A diary entry on New York City, the Metropolitan Transit Authority, Death Stranding, Deadlock, and EVE Frontier. On games and the shared systems that tie us.
https://mattpon.medium.com/infrastructure-77f0feb9c9cd

"...Rose Engine’s Signalis is a top-down horror shooter...(where) you crawl into an uncomfortably small hole in the ground that looks like raw meat, read “The King In Yellow” in a bunker, and ♥♥♥♥ gets weird.

Where the ♥♥♥♥ do I even start here?

...(Signalis seeks to) convey dread, to put us in an inexplicable position of loss and confusion and pain: in the environments it presents and then pulls the rug out from under; in its refusal to give us any grounding in reality; in its questioning of our senses, our motivations, and our actions; in our seamless traversal of time, space, and being.

...The ache in my soul that Signalis leaves behind is dread manifested before our very eyes, but not shied away from. Instead it’s embraced, knowingly, fatedly. We made a promise, and we intend to see it through..."

A diary entry about IMMORTALITY - Signalis — The King in Yellow — El Paso, Elsewhere — Isle of the Dead — Stories of Your Life and Others / Arrival
On dreading the future, facing fear, and how to move forward for the sake of love - for the sake of yourself.
https://medium.com/@mattpon/the-incoherence-of-dread-9fe8c82b9adc