Waiting for Godot: A Simulator

Waiting for Godot: A Simulator This is a simulator based on Samuel Beckett’s famous 1955 play Waiting for Godot. I return to the play every so often. I enjoy finding reworkings and restagings. Partly because the story within is so versatile, and partly because the Samuel Beckett Estate is so aggressive in stopping versions of […]

Edwin Morgan’s Computer

Edwin Morgan’s Computer Edwin Morgan’s Computer is a series of game poems/poem games by Nick Murray featuring additional drums by Antosh Wojcik on XMAS1. The full piece can be played here. Each game is a remix of one of Edwin Morgan’s concrete ‘computer’ poems (plus a bonus remix of one of his science poems, which […]

Carriage Social

Carriage Social Carriage Social is a collaborative game made for the London Transport Museum Friday Late event (Friday 28th February 2020). Participants were invited to create new characters through drawing and collage, then see them jump from paper to screen and join a Tube-wide party. The game, and all the characters created during the event, […]

Dial 55555

Dial 55555 “I remember, or I dreamt of a city made up of a thousand temples. Each one wielded a spire that would rise above the other buildings like snare hits in a song.” The Speaking Clock Part magical-realist guidebook, part small-town mystery, Dial 55555 is an interactive narrative game told through voicemails, missed connections, […]

Walk With Me to Derwent

Walk With Me to Derwent “At certain times, very dry times, landmarks can reappear on the reservoir banks.” Between 1943 and 1945, the Ladybower Reservoir slowly filled with water. To facilitate the creation of this huge body of water in Derbyshire’s Hope Valley, the two villages of Derwent and Ashopton were evacuated, the inhabitants displaced […]

Tamagotchi Seance

Tamagotchi Seance Tamagotchi Seance is a love letter and a eulogy to your own long dead digital pet. Using the motif of the familiar children’s toy, you get a chance to reflect on deaths you might not have taken the time to consider. Featured at Hoax Publication. You can play Tamagotchi Seance here.

Spirit Board #1

Spirit Board #1 “It’s not reel-to-reels or spectrometers anymore. Download the latest iSpectre or strap on your VR headset.” The spirit board is a curiosity of its time, but its methods are as uncanny today as they ever were. Nick Murray gives the spirit board a technological overhaul. Virtual space and The Beyond overlap to […]