nomicon: game systems you can poke at
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Right to Walk: a footpath check for Gurugram
A Crashfree India prototype for checking Gurugram streets against footpath standards and recording pedestrian barriers.
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Security Clown’s Seven-Foot Home Guards
A theatrical storefront presenting oversized clown sentries, a motion-triggered Jack-in-the-Box, and branded merch; the listed clown models are sold out.
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The Turning Sky makes a record out of the stars
An interactive sound piece maps stars around the celestial poles into rotating, playable records for the northern and southern skies.
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Transparência do Caos: Brazil’s pandemic in public records
A Portuguese-language investigation bringing together public data, records, and sources on Covid-19 in Brazil and federal pandemic decisions.
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Votivane: a procession where every duel rewrites its rules
A turn-based RPG set in Sevilha Morta, where wooden statues offer three vows before each fight and a procession winds through seven parishes.
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WindPowerGlobe: A Playable Wind-Turbine Atlas
An interactive globe maps wind farms around the world and turns wind conditions and estimated turbine output into a hands-on exploration.
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VERGE: The World's Most Dangerous Places
An interactive field atlas of ten hazardous places, organized by four distinct risk dimensions and illustrated with credited documentary photographs.
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BallotATL: a voting guide for eight Atlanta-area counties
A nonpartisan guide to the November 3, 2026 Georgia general election, with county voting details, candidate information, amendments, and tools for planning a vote.
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Beyond.beta’s Two-Olive Doctrine
A Silicon Valley cult-startup satire that frames transcendence as a scalable platform, complete with a two-olive doctrine and member-only teachings.
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Kaboomcano, a lava-steering puzzle
A free browser game where you place rock walls to steer lava away from critters across 150 levels and a shared daily island.
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LANCECON: Every Lance, One Bar, One Night
A New York gathering invites people named Lance to meet at a Lower East Side bar on May 27, 2027.
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Parkour Mumbai’s memorial archive
A memorial and archive documenting Parkour Mumbai, an early Indian parkour community that was active until 2014.
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Rocamar, Gijón: an archive with 12 nights still missing
A community-maintained archive of the Gijón club’s 1995–2003 history, with recorded sessions, DJ notes, and a call for missing material.
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The Unfollowology Institute and the science of being unfollowable
A fictional research institute offers a 12-question Unfollowability Assessment alongside satirical tools for disengaging from online arguments and unsolicited advice.
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Who Pays? Czech Public-Media Funding, Compared
A sourced Czech-language explainer and calculator comparing ways to fund public television and radio.
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Darbar-e-489 Sharif: Four Tiers, Finite Cushions
A fictional satirical Darbar, complete with ceremonial offices, imaginary bakra offerings, and an unnecessary committee for nearly everything.
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The Data Center Clock
An interactive, sourced investigation that tracks data-centre electricity, water and spending, and maps where the infrastructure is being built.
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DialUpSounds: a dial-up handshake you can inspect
An interactive browser tool synthesizes dial-up modem handshakes, with selectable modem types, line conditions, audio controls, and an annotated spectrogram.
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Ebbfall: a browser RTS in the 1998 mold
Ebbfall is a playable real-time strategy game with single-player and multiplayer options, designed for browsers on desktop and mobile.
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Erode Lab turns deep time into a browser control panel
A browser-based terrain lab lets you choose a place on Earth and simulate how geological forces could reshape its real terrain.
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Groddle Afternoon brings Glitch back to the browser
A fan remake of Tiny Speck’s 2009–2012 game Glitch, rebuilt from the art, music, and code released to the public domain.
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The Sugihara Visa Archive
A searchable memorial archive documenting the transit visas Chiune Sugihara issued to Jewish refugees in Kaunas in 1940, alongside surviving documents and family histories.
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Thirsty AI: a satellite record of data-centre water
An interactive investigation into water use around major AI data centres, with a local lookup, campus comparisons, and links to its methods and data.