{"id":5717,"date":"2024-08-26T00:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T07:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/?p=5717"},"modified":"2024-08-28T06:29:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:29:22","slug":"play-my-new-interactive-liminal-space-horror-essay-about-technocapitalism-and-individuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/play-my-new-interactive-liminal-space-horror-essay-about-technocapitalism-and-individuality","title":{"rendered":"Play my new interactive liminal-space horror essay about technocapitalism and individuality!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_pHC5vRyCIQ?si=RHHGNMK25iDBH3R6\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r?a?n?t?  manifesto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"https:\/\/alienmelon.itch.io\/shovelware\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/alienmelon.itch.io\/shovelware<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is an interactive-essay-meets-walking-sim about technocapitalism and the things we lost along the way.<br \/>\nFollow coins under the electric mist of a clouded starry sky. Discover hyper-links. Listen to the words both inside and outside your head. Seal your fate before the productivity machine.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/assetflipannounce\/assetflip_3.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just published this interactive essay.<br \/>\nThis was meant to be preformed in a live setting but it&#8217;s not a good fit, so it transformed into an interactive essay format. Please enjoy the narration and ambient vibe. :)<br \/>\nMy previous &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/from-monopolies-to-tiny-tools-by-solo-devs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">From monopolies to tiny tools by solo devs<\/a>&#8221; talk was based on the work I initially did for this.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really proud of it! It&#8217;s a strange surreal backrooms liminal-space horror experience about technocapitalism, techfeudalism, the philosophies in our digital world that we need to keep alive as tech keeps evolving&#8230; The role our individuality (as individual creators and participants) has under the thumb of an ever shifting tech landscape.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/assetflipannounce\/Screenshot14.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m mildly humored that it&#8217;s made in Unreal with all the latest bells and whistles. Here&#8217;s this anti-capitalist commentary that&#8217;s made for next-gen hardware with the graphics enhancements necessary to boast good lighting and reflection.<br \/>\nAfter all, good dramatic lighting is important if you are criticizing &#8220;The Machine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/assetflipannounce\/1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really have much more to say about it because I think it pretty much speaks for itself.<br \/>\nEither way, there&#8217;s not much to lose (other than your time). It&#8217;s free!<\/p>\n<p>(Right now I&#8217;m trying to see if I can get &#8220;building from Windows to Linux&#8221; working with Unreal so I can publish a Linux version later. I hope! No harm in trying.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/assetflipannounce\/Screenshot8.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/assetflipannounce\/Screenshot12.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r?a?n?t? manifesto * https:\/\/alienmelon.itch.io\/shovelware &#8220;This is an interactive-essay-meets-walking-sim about technocapitalism and the things we lost along the way. Follow coins under the electric mist of a clouded starry sky. Discover hyper-links. Listen to the words both inside and outside your head. Seal your fate before the productivity machine.&#8221; I just published this interactive essay. This was meant to be preformed in a live setting but it&#8217;s not a good fit, so it transformed into an interactive essay format. Please enjoy the narration and ambient vibe. :) My previous &#8220;From&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/assetflipannounce\/assetflip_3.gif","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5721,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions\/5721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}