In the form of a music video: Look At Me (When I Rock Wichoo) by Black Kids.
Awesome nostalgia with a totally trippy and psychadelic vibe, and plenty of cross-references to the genres and tropes that are baked into our generation’s post-80s DNA. I once said my creative agenda for RPGs was about a certain kind [...]
The Faint are great.
Here’s the video for “The Geeks Were Right”. Be careful, it’s a little painful to watch given the seizure-inducing graphics (though I dig the music still).
The vibe of the song fits with the post-humanism/existentialism of the Matrix, though the graphics are more like a bad trip down the Metaverse of Neuromancer. Maybe [...]
Dntel feat. Ben Gibbard (so yeah almost the Postal Service) – (This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan
This should inspire you for stories in the Matrix, and sad love stories anywhere; it may inspire me to combine the two.
(And a question: what season (IRL) is the right time to play a Matrix-themed game?)
I just remembered that “Down In A Rabbit Hole” by Bright Eyes is perfect telling this kind of story. Probably the entirety of “Digital Ash In A Digital Urn” is, but it’s a heavy album and I’m not yet up for [...]
Impatient game design from Dev Purkayastha.