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Starmap

An interactive 3D visualization of our stellar neighborhood within 100 light years of Sol. Explore nearby stars, discover locations from science fiction universes, and navigate through local space.

October Glyph

A literary automaton displaying sentences from classic horror and weird fiction. Watch thematic connections form between passages from Dracula, Frankenstein, The King in Yellow, and other masterworks.

Pumpkin Patch Nomic

Artifacts from a game of Nomic dating from 1996. Pumpkin Patch Nomic involved, among other things, an economy based on letter farms and word machines, rules for corporate personhood, and fruits and vegetables.

Mythos Network

An interactive visualization of the network of Cthulhu mythos authors and entities. Nodes are scaled by canonicity.

Cliques

A social game about secret languages. Players form circles with coded communication patterns and try to join other players' circles by cracking their codes. To earn the most points make sure your circle is neither too easy nor too hard to join.

The Parties in Congress

An interactive explorer of U.S. political party history, 1789–2027. Per-Congress seat shares for every major party family and significant third party, combined with an era-level encoding of each party's ideological theme positions.

Moonbound

A strategy game of realistic Moon mission architecture. Buy launch vehicles, assemble spacecraft from components, and sequence the pieces into a complete mission plan — then see whether it physically closes, and at what cost.

The Long Bureaucracies

Comparative timelines of twenty-six organizations of appointed, competence-certified officials, 3000 BCE–present, ranked by lifespan. Crisis markers show which survival properties each crisis damaged, and when they were reestablished.