Name: Konsoll 2017: Jake Elliot - Playful Text @Konsoll
Uploaded: 2018-02-07T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: This is a talk about playful writing & playful reading. Using the writing and interactive text design in Kentucky Route Zero as an entry point, well look at some of its antecedents+inspirations, moving beyond games to playful+playable writing systems like net.art, hypertext, and further back to Oulipo, Fluxus, Dada & pattern poetry.

Konsoll 2023: Peter W. Meldahl - Original fantasy @Konsoll

Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

How to build a fantastical world that draws from places other than existing works. Game designer and storyteller Peter Meldahl takes us trough the creation of Teslagrad 2 and its inspirational roots in local nature, European folklore and manmade technology.

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