Phone Story, an anti-iPhone serious game for the iPhone
— two hours after launch, it was pulled for violating multiple App Store guidelines #Shoshana Hebshi handcuffed, jailed, strip-searched for flying while brown yesterday
— “It’s 9/11 and people are seeing ghosts”; here’s the AP version #8-bit Fashion
— like Sword & Sworcery on the runway; related: Anrealage’s real-life pixel fashion and store #Ten is Love and Everything After
— Anil’s annual post commemorating 9/11; related: Neven Mrgan’s Amerikanac #Gamer Recreations of the World Trade Center
People deal with tragedy in different ways using the tools they have at their disposal. Painters paint, writers write, and gamers mod.
Lately, I’ve been interested in seeing how game modders and mappers have recreated the World Trade Center, the events of September 11, and the WTC Memorial in various game engines. Some of these are profane and offensive, quite likely made by teens that have no first-hand memory of the disaster, but most are intended as tributes. Here’s the best of what I was able to find.