Games that Aren't Games

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Increpare Games: https://www.increpare.com/ Monuments to Guilt by Louis: https://louisthings.itch.io/monuments-to-guilt

‘LSD: Dream Emulator’, an Avant-Garde Game Released on PlayStation by Sébastien Raineri: https://pen-online.com/arts/lsd-dream-emulator-an-avant-garde-game-released-on-playstation/ Interview with Osamu Sato by Nick Dwyer: https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/11/osamu-sato-interview Creating KID A MNESIA: an exclusive look at Radiohead's new virtual exhibit: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/spotlights/creating-kid-a-mnesia-an-exclusive-look-at-radiohead-s-new-virtual-exhibit Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood on Kid A Mnesia: https://blog.playstation.com/2021/11/18/radiohead-explain-the-story-behind-the-creation-of-its-kid-a-mnesia-exhibition-out-today-on-ps5/ Cameron Kunzelman on Mountain: https://www.pastemagazine.com/games/mountain/mountain-review-pcmacios Ian Bogost on Mountain: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/07/you-are-mountain/374543/ Carolina Miranda on Mountain: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-playing-her-animator-david-oreilly-mountain-video-game-20140705-column.html Michael McMaster on Mountain: https://medium.com/@michaeljmcmaster/on-formalism-a1b4e95bb435 Ben Kuchera on Mountain: https://www.polygon.com/2014/7/3/5868087/mountain-indie-game-joke-satire-self-loathing Ausin C. Howe on Mountain: http://hapticfeedbackgames.blogspot.com/2014/07/on-text-vs-form.html

Media: LSD Dream Emulator, Slave of God, Mountain, Monuments to Guilt, Kid A Mnesia Exhibition, Haunted PS1 Demodisc, Daytona USA, Her, DONE (music video), Minecraft, Guggenheim and Louvre virtual tours, Who’s Afraid of Virigina Woolfe, Everything, Stephen’s Sausage Roll, Oh Shit the Cameraman Ist Arrived, Battlegrounds, Running Memories,

Music Used (Chronologically): Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker Suite, Tchaikovsky), Start Menu (Gallop Racer 3), Acid Groove, LSD Choir (LSD Dream Emulator), Season Mode (Gallop Racer 2), Temple Dojo - Ambient (LSD Dream Emulator), Slave of God OST, Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker Suite, Tchaikovsky), One Life to Live-Maya Remembers (UnearthU), The House Part 1 (Gone Home), Everything in Its Right Place (Radiohead), Floating Kite (Tellsonic), The National Anthem, Idioteque (Radiohead), Weird Fishes (on4word- Mario x Radiohead), Reminiscence Captured on Tape (Ave Air), End of the Ocean (Tellsonic), Jenny’s Theme (The Darkness), No Surprises (on4word- Mario x Radiohead)

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