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Also cannot stop giggling at this perfectly timed photo of me unintentionally doing the Italian hand gesture and @lorenzopilia.bsky.social snapping a pic

farfama on a stage with a green background, farfamas hand is pinched together. a person in the audience is taking picture

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Also other great hypertalks included Is Indie Industry An Oxymoron? by Sarah Bashir Community Matters by @lorenzopilia.bsky.social Games meet Performance Art by Jira Duguid Wind, still! (the importance of audio in shaping immersive experiences) by Almut Schwacke

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re:publica 26: A MAZE. Hypertalks - 7 knowledge-injections - 5 minutes each

Last month I gave a hypertalk at re:publica Berlin about @exhibitplay.com. It's now online. "Thoughtful Human Curation Against Profit Driven Algorithm Fueled Monopolistic Platform" Starts at 32:15. Thanks @amazefest.bsky.social for inviting me to the event

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There's been a price increase on the switch 1 last year and a switch 2 increase this year.

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Me every time I dust off my VR headset. Then the head discomfort, nausea, and eye strain kicks in after an hour

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it's really wild. I think this is the first console generation where prices have gone up significantly over time rather than down. It no longer pays to be patient 😢

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languageinstinct.bandcamp.com

Gregory Nunn (Language Instinct, Glacial Anatomy) provided the music and will be helping out with the sound design. Check out all his incredible experimental noise, drone, and ambient music here. Wide range of textural soundscapes languageinstinct.bandcamp.com

Language Instinct

Constant Practice languageinstinct.neocities.org

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I've probably done over 100 playtests of the 5 minute experience and something that's so fascinating about this is that depending on where you decide to hold your gaze, the visual experience and feeling is radically different

Jordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Reposted by farfama

Do you like weird, poetic, experimental, short-form videogames? Perfect! We're looking for volunteer first readers for the next issue of Game Poems Magazine: forms.gle/woymquRuJJyv... Play a few games, help shape the next issue! Heart.

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another project of mine that breaks the compression algorithm. so metal

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farfama @farfama.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

i've grown to appreciate weather as small talk. so much variety. fire tornados, haboobs, sprite lightning

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Also special shoutout to @alienmelon.bsky.social for the inspiration to answer one of the questions. I mentioned the idea of wanting game discovery feeling like entering a secret hidden shop in a back alley. I was wondering where I had that thought and it's from this great collection

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the good stuff - Collection by alienmelon

A collection by alienmelon

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farfama @farfama.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I also created an itch collection with all the games I mentioned. The full list is available on my site which is linked in the collection itch.io/c/7719853/ex...

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Sidequest also wrote a wonderful long form piece about my talk and many others You can read it here sidequestosp.substack.com/p/gather-que...

Turning from individual practice to an ethos or ethics, a spotlight was shone on Experiential Game Design (Betonhalle, 15.05 12:00-12:30) by Farfama, a game artist and curator behind Exhibit:Play and the GÆMZ Tokyo outpost. The key conceit of Farfama’s presentation is that AAA game studios adhere to studio logics that parallel the Hollywood film industry, with certain restricted moods inherent to conventional cinematography and professional standards that can flatten aesthetic creativity. The use of ARRI Alexa 35 cameras might be compared with proprietary in-house game engines like EA’s Frostbite, both are highly specialised and will produce a certain effect. Against this narrowing Farfama argues for experiences that are equate to cinema and its more polyamoros history, think German Expressionism, the French New Wave and Gene Youngblood’s writing on arthouse Expanded Cinema (1970). Alongside indicative references to games such as Moshe Linke’s Fugue in Void (2018), Kristallijn (2020) by Gaël Bourhis, Exophilie (2023) by Death Orgone (aka Frédérick Maheux) and Yuha’s Nightmare. Episode One: Catastrophe (2026) (A MAZE. Exhibition) from Super Experience, amongst others, Farfama puts forward an extensive catalogue of creative variables that game developers can tinker with and employ to devise unique atmospheres. Sampling from the twenty-eight factors included, a short list includes more corporal qualities such as kinaesthetic, cohesion and attensity (a term coined by psychologist Edward Bradford Titchener in 1924 to denote the capacity for attention separate from perception) as well as design aspects like pacing, VFX and narrative. (Boring, 1934) There is also the interesting inclusion of history, a sense of the weight of the world preceding your entry into it.

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A MAZE. / Berlin 2026 - Day 2: Experiential Game Design

My A MAZE. Berlin talk 'Experiential Design' has been uploaded. You can watch it here. I didn't realize how much of it is me giving tons of shoutouts 😅. There's a lot of personal design philosophy in there too. Enjoy youtu.be/fGbs9IcCyjY

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Yeah, I wonder. The environments feel so nice. I do know that the environment artist is a big on using complex light baking tools. They also made the museum for The Zium Exposition and baked the lighting for my piece.

Loving this detailed breakdown!

farfama @farfama.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

release within the next few weeks

circular metallic rings, on the right side middle the text "alloy::ephemera"

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farfama @farfama.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

experimenting with extreme dynamic lens distortion mixed with metallics

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farfama @farfama.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

***Solastalgia. No worries, I also misspell it a lot since its not a dictionary word haha. I'm so glad that our performance was memorable. It was last minute decision, but seemed to go really well.