Game makers find inspiration at Lost Levels, an intimate and involving gathering where anything seems possible

Clickhole is best known for ruthlessly satirical articles that take aim at clickbait, so I wasn't sure what to think when I heard that it had posted an adventure game… Read the rest of the article: Clickhole made an adventure game and it's actually pretty good

Just in case you needed more reasons to miss the recently departed Leonard Nimoy: Last year, the website TrekMovie reported that during the filming of the original Star Trek series… Read the rest of the article: Leonard Nimoy fought for pay equity for Nichelle Nichols

Crows, as we all know, are terrifyingly smart.

About a year ago, a street artist known as Mobstr posted a video titled "The Number," which involved leaving a phone number posted on a roundabout, and inviting passersby to… Read the rest of the article: Why Londoners are exchanging text messages with a signpost

Makeup artist Lianna Moseley doesn't make people look like superheroes—she makes them look like superhero drawings, complete with thick-lined cheekbones and larger-than-life snarls. Check out her Facebook for more, including… Read the rest of the article: The makeup artist who turns faces into superhero drawings

She worked hard to overcome the ignominy of the 1995 scandal involving Bill Clinton, writing a Vanity Fair article on public humiliation and a moving speech about cyber-bullying. But it's… Read the rest of the article: What it was like to be Monica Lewinsky in 2001

At any given moment, your social media feed is a cultural snapshot: an up-to-the-minute look at how the people around you feel about their lives and the issues that affect… Read the rest of the article: Read Facebook on a spaceship in the year 2042

A photographer and makeup artist based in New York City, Ryan Burke creates characters from the best sci-fi series you've never seen. "The portraits I create express a perspective on… Read the rest of the article: Ryan Burke's otherworldly photos are better than sci-fi

The Twitter Fiction Festival will return from May 11-15 for another a five-day celebration of creative work on Twitter.

In a reported comic, journalist and cartoonist Susie Cagle follows volunteers as they attempt to count the homeless on the streets of San Francisco, a city where the median cost… Read the rest of the article: Counting the homeless in San Francisco: imperfect and imperative

Behold The Sun, a simple, lovely interactive experience created by Cameron Kunzelman where you guide a growing flock of birds through the sky as the sun slowly sets behind them.… Read the rest of the article: Guiding a flock of birds through the sky is surprisingly emotional

Reading picture books like Goodnight Moon remains a fond childhood memory for many, but it's an experience that many visually-impaired kids don't get to have. The Tactile Picture Books Project… Read the rest of the article: 3D printing tactile versions of Goodnight Moon for blind children

If you've never tried the fitness app Zombies, Run, imagine a long series of tiny radio plays set during the zombie apocalypse that ask you to run to various locations… Read the rest of the article: The creator of a best-selling exercise game on being fat and loving her body

Consent can be an uncomfortable subject, an often-complex and personal form of negotiation that people rarely get a chance to practice outside the moments that precede sexual encounters. Allison Cole,… Read the rest of the article: Game illustrates sexual consent using skin contact as the controller

Have you ever wanted to glue one thing to another, but not known exactly how to do it? This to That is here to answer your highly specific prayer.

If the anti-consumerist ethos of Fight Club were translated into a Minecraft game, it might look a little like Keep Working, an "interactive music video" by a developer known as… Read the rest of the article: Keep Working: a game about the nightmare of consumerism

Cloudrise is about the tragic gravity of both love and airships: what goes up must come down.

Keiji Yamagishi, aka the composer of the music for the original Ninja Gaiden, just released a chiptunes album that sounds like an alternate dimension soundtrack to the best NES game that never existed. Listen… Read the rest of the article: Listen: A chiptunes album by the Ninja Gaiden composer

"You can love the police, you can hate the police, but you can't argue that the police wield enormous power," writes the team behind This Is the Police, a game currently… Read the rest of the article: This Is The Police, a game about power and corruption