Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
食図鑑: The Ingredient-List Monster Manual
A browser-based food-education game that scans ingredient lists and turns their contents into collectible food-shaped aliens.
Why it surfaced食図鑑 makes the small print on packaged food the entrance to a game: players collect, evolve, and battle 814 characters whose strengths are tied to nutrition and food pairings. Its world also maps 565 municipalities, local specialties, producers, shops, and regional bosses into a surprisingly ambitious lesson about where food comes from.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.