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Soundtrack: Genesis Noir — a universe built from improvisation, sounding when you touch it
In the black-and-white adventure Genesis Noir, a watch salesman named No Man tries to save his lover from the Big Bang — a gunshot fired by a jealous god. There is no dialogue; the story runs almost entirely on sound. Skillbard's Tom Carrell and Vincent Oliver spent four years scoring the cosmos by 'bolting live jazz improvisations together like puzzle pieces.' Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take apart why a touch-and-try puzzle and an improvised score fit each other so well.
Inside Eric Chahi's Philosophy — Turning Lack into Margin
A study of Eric Chahi, author of Another World (Out of this World), drawn from his 2011 GDC postmortem and several interviews: his method of turning constraints into improvisation, a design that bets on the player's memory, staging that works by suggestion and punctuation, the failures and dilemmas he has voiced, and his acknowledged influences — all grounded only in public statements.
