Gaming
How speedrunners became gaming's accidental archivists
The speedrun community's obsessive quest for frame-perfect runs has quietly created the most meticulous archive of gaming history ever assembled — and no one planned it.
Theo Lindqvist
Stories by Theo Lindqvist
Creative Projects
The Endless Lore Project: Why Internet Strangers Are Building Universes They'll Never Sell
A new wave of hobbyists is collaboratively worldbuilding sprawling fictional universes on shared wikis, Obsidian vaults, and Discord servers—purely for the joy of it, with no game, book, or product in sight.
Gaming
The Quiet Rebellion of Solo Tabletop RPGs
How games like Ironsworn and Thousand Year Old Vampire turned the loneliest format in tabletop into its most intimate and fastest-growing genre.
Creative Projects
Why Collage Became the Defining Art Form of the AI Era
As generative tools flatten visual culture into infinite sameness, a growing wave of artists are turning to cut-and-paste collage as the most subversive creative act of the 2020s.
Creative Projects
The Rebirth of the Personal Website
After a decade of profiles on other people's platforms, the personal website is back — and this time it is cheap, fast, and built to outlast them all.
Creative Projects
Open-Source Games Built by One Person
A solo developer, a public repository, and years of patient work. The quiet movement building ambitious open-source games is rewriting what a small team can ship.
Gaming
Indie Games Defying the AAA Formula
The biggest games are getting bigger and safer. The most interesting games are getting smaller and stranger — and finding their audience anyway.
Gaming
The Rise of Cozy Games
For a decade games were about winning. A new wave is about tending, building, and being — and it is quietly becoming the most played genre in the world.