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06/06/2026
UCLA Game Lab resident Aidan Strong's new game, TEXTURETOWN, is featured on Rock Paper Shotgun 👾 Built from remixed assets, sounds, text, and textures sourced from now-defunct mid-2000s MMOs, TEXTURETOWN transforms the remains of online worlds into a strange, playable collage. The project draws from games including Toontown, Club Penguin, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, and FusionFall to create an experience that feels both familiar and uncanny.
Read the feature: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/texturetown-is-a-frankensteins-mmo-created-by-remixing-club-penguin-pirates-of-the-caribbean-online-and-other-dead-mmos
Play TEXTURETOWN: https://str0nkyk0ng.itch.io/texturetown
LAST WEEK TO SEE CORPOREAL TECHNOLOGIES! The exhibition is on view at the UCLA Broad Art Center’s New Wight Gallery through May 28. Featuring new works by the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA 2026 cohort.
CORPTECH eschews total assimilation by joining discrete operations into literal bodies of work: Fractured echoes of an entombed body coalesce and resurrect under an algorithmic gaze. Virtual bodies contort at the press of a button, subject to cartoon gravity and gamified spectacle. Global crisis gives way to hivemind psychosis, while choreographed code traces an uncertain future history with every gesture.
Work featured in video by: Xiner Lan, Sagan Yee
Animated poster by Sadia Quddus
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