Fishwick Papers: The "Your Heart Out" Edition

Howdy dee, ya cool folk.Today has been really interesting. At ACMI The Voxel Agents are running some playtesting (a word I don't really like, it should be testplaying) of their upcoming game The Gardens Between. I've been watching Simon from the Voxel Agents watch people play the game. As a puzzle game, the designers can't really play through it themselves, because they know how to solve the puzzles, so we've had a dozen people through to play the game, and been talking to them about what makes the puzzles work (or not). The game is gorgeous, and will be released in September - keep an eye out.

Shameless Self-Promotion

• I did a fairly in-depth write-up of the Games Lab update I curated

• I interviewed game designer Sam Crisp about his latest work Florence

• I'm emailing my friend Luke to talk about omnivorous improv appetites

All that is Old is New

• Beyoncé and Jay Z take over the Louvre in Apeshit

• Slang for two kinds of genitalia from 1250 to the modern day

• Tom Hanks ad libs in character as Falstaff during a disruption at Henry IV

Keeping Calm

• Blockedt is social media without the social and also without the media

• Stim Your Heart Out reframes Autistic stress relief as choreography

• Planting the seed: patience and nurture in virtual gardening

​Reanalysis

• Making a mechanical mirror out of toy penguins

• A detailed but interesting analysis of the animation in Last of Us 2

• Worcester Art Museum rewrites its wall text to reveal ties to slavery

R.I.P. Vine of the Week

• #Meekalaugh

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