The Graveyard

Tale-of-Tales is an amazing game design group (group of two).  I’ve been following them for years now, and they are amazing game designers!  The majority of their games challenge what a game is, what interactivity is, and what we get out of it as an audience.  Many avid gamers with both Indie and Commercial games alike tend to be divided in how they label Tale-of-Tales’ work between a game and interactive art.
The Graveyard is a game they released in 2008:

The game lasts about ten minutes.  You navigate an old woman up a path through a graveyard.  She will sit down at the bench and a song titled “88 Lines about 44 Dead People” will play as she contemplates life on the bench.  Then, she will get up and you can navigate her back to the beginning (or through the cemetery if you choose).  For $5.00, you can buy the full version instead of the trial/demo.  The full version only adds one feature: the woman may or may not die of natural causes through the course of the game!

Here’s Wikipedia’s short article on it.

Here’s a review from Wired Magazine.

A-fuckin’-mazing.

1969 Cincinnati Reds Scrapbook

Found this when I was looking for my tax papers- my mom’s Reds scrapbook from that season. I think I borrowed it once and never gave it back (sorry, Mom).

But it’s chock full of awesome 60′s designs and newspaper clippings. Old typefaces are the best. The only one I have from here is Deming from Lost Type, at the bottom of the bus schedule. I wonder if buses were as horrible then as they are now?

We Got Nothing to Celebrate – The Zax

Ohmygodohmygodohmygod:

WARNING: This video contains the second sexiest old lady on the planet (#2 only to Betty White) and a muppety mature pekingese puppet.

Directed by Ben&Julia (who are becoming my favorite production artists and puppet masters of all time… move over Jim Henson).

Even better, the Zax is named after these guys from the Cat in the Hat:

Here is the official site.