The award-winning game of epic fractal histories

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

Read to the end for a machine we must create

A puzzle game with twenty small mazes.

The realignment of Major League Baseball two decades ago resulted in a rare crossword glitch Friday and a good-natured apology from its syndicated creator, a former Newton resident.

My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...