individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto
A downloadable shovelware for Windows, macOS, and Linux
A high definition anti-capitalism next-gen-ism, with good lighting, and optimized textures.
This is an interactive-essay-meets-walking-sim about technocapitalism and the things we lost along the way.
Follow coins under the electric mist of a clouded starry sky. Discover hyper-links. Listen to the words both inside and outside your head. Seal your fate before the productivity machine. Together we can defeat the machine.
Features include: Pedantic views on tech feudalism with nice shader work, and good reflection captures. Overly critical views on capitalism with lumen and nanite enabled.
Claim this game before it's gone forever.
These assets are next-gen. You will need a DirectX 11 capable gaming machine. 
Click here for a full PLAY-THROUGH
Some flipped assets, not all, allegedly from the following free-for-the-month bundles...
* Advanced Glass Pack (No assets were used)
* Bank Building (Many assets were used)
* Big Office (Many assets were used)
* Brutalist Architecture Office (Not enough assets were used)
* Clouds and Skies (No Assets were used)
* Advanced CRT TV - VCR - VHS Effects (Lazy use of these assets)
* 4 IN 1 Modular Research Facility / Mega Bundle (Trashcan assets were used)
Download
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Development log
- New showcase version and some bug fixes...Feb 28, 2025
- (Bonus Content!) a print ready zine to go with the game is availableFeb 14, 2025
- Playable essay "individualism in the dead-internet age" is an IGF Nuovo Award fi...Jan 17, 2025
- Notes on making a Linux buildAug 28, 2024
- Play my new interactive liminal-space horror essay about technocapitalism and in...Aug 26, 2024
Comments
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look out
who casted roataticus chatterious?
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help i cant read the commetns
It's incredible what you've done with this comments section
I briefly tried to get it to work on my Linux machine and it was an incomprehensible flashing mess hostile to human existence. Truly an adept satire of the corporate hell I live in. When did all the corporate suits start talking about the North Star so much, three different "thought leaders" have mentioned it in this one meeting I'm trying to avoid paying attention to.
Might as well lie here forever
help me i'm stuck in the washing mashine!!!
how do you even achieven this
Yo, My head's doin' the twist already. 😵💫
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I think im gonna be sick 🤮
How the heck is this thing spinning?
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I'm so glad this game exist as someone who did'nt know most of the scene it describe in the first part. Made me weirdly nostalgic of a time I never knew but encaption perfeectly the dread of seeing how internet change. I'm getting dizzy now so I can't checks for typos. Sorry. But thank you so much for this game.
spinny!
This is just beautiful and, even though its eulogising something thats still dying infront of us, it gives me hope. So inspiring thank you ✨
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WHY AM I SPINNING HELP
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you spin me right round
This is such a creative way to present an essay, not what I was expecting at all, but so so so cool!!!!!!
the Godot game engine will be a very important tool for the creation of today’s highly individualistic software, and weapon against corporate stagnation.
it is already used to develop game‑like indie software
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This website is making me dizzzzyyyyy :D
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alright chat if any of u wanna read the comment just open reading mode on ur browser and highlight the entire page. yw
why is this thing spinning
Not sure if anyone's been able to notice, but the mmm and neocities displays are reversed, essentially being in the wrong spot!
I will say, though, that while I would disagree with some of the conclusions (Most notably, the irony of citing app clearinghouses as prohibitively expensive whilst posting on itch, a seemingly wonderful platform for presenting creations to the world), I can hardly criticize the questions and concerns posited, and the format they are presented in certainly adds to the thoughtfullness of it all.
Again though, I'm pretty sure comments are meant to be effectively disabled, and nobody will ever read it, so why bother typing it up?
Hey, I know this seems like a crazy request but many of the websites have paywalls, which makes me wonder if maybe an archive.org variant would be better for posterity? Also during my playthrough the github link to paladin-t's fantasy consoles on github clicking didn't work. Thanks for the art piece. It really spoke to me and even though in some ways I am more hopeful about inventors making and hacking hardware in their garage, it was nice to see a lot of my sentiments echoed and shocking to learn a lot of new things. <3
independent ftw
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✈️ - drifting plane
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