“Each block I consume is a prelude to the next;
each piece of stone, each fragment of wood or marble,
each pane of glass is but a morsel in time,
and I have become the void that is the future.
Devastation you see, occurs in its own peculiar silence.”
Our new game has just been released. The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place - is a story about a municipal building eater, consuming a tower at the edge of an unnamed town.
Adapted from the works of the Gujarati poet MirUmar Hassan, it is a rumination about the violence of erasure and the profound grief of having to survive on the margins of history, while places of entangled and inclusive record are being effaced.
Windows, Mac and Linux builds are now freely available on our itchio page : https://studio-oleomingus.itch.io/the-indifferent-wonder-of-an-edible-place
A new exhibition of our work opens at the VGA in Chicago today. It is called :
Notes in the Margins of History.
https://www.videogameartgallery.com/events/studio-oleomingus-notes-in-the-margins-of-history
Come and visit some peculiar places, eat buildings, read never ending stories and ponder the munificent forms in which we record the various histories of our lives.
Our new game created for the V&A commission is now released.
You can play it on itch.io for free via the link above.
In the Pause between the Ringing : is a rumination about completion.
About territorial margins and about the haunting of bodies and memories
that are translated across borders.It is an adaption of an unpublished story written by Mir UmarHassan,for the editor of the Malwa Chronicle in the July of 1958. And it records the turbulent history of Telephone mining in British India.
Reworking an old game of ours (Menagerie) for display. This new version is called Bol.
Announcing our next story from Somewhere. Here is an early look at :
Under A Porcelain Sun.
Steam : http://store.steampowered.com/app/532230/Under_a_Porcelain_Sun/
Our latest game A Museum of Dubious Splendors is now live on Steam!
This makes it our first game on Steam, and it is available for free.
Play it here :
http://store.steampowered.com/app/772680/a_Museum_of_Dubious_Splendors/
Our new game, about dismantling observatories is called An Indivisible Margin of Error. It will be playable at the When is Space exhibition at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur for the next three months.
Do come and visit if you are in town.
Hello! We are releasing a new game tomorrow. It is called :
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
In the month of May in the year 1603, under the shadow of an annular eclipse, there occurred a strange gathering of astronomers. The purpose of this conference was to divine the cause of an inscrutable error that had plagued the celestial observations of those who had gathered.
Here, after much debate, it was decreed that nine observatories would be built. Each to a different scale and each adorned with different instruments of cosmic inquiry. Nine custodians were appointed, one for each observatory and they embarked upon the search for the smallest viable measure of an error. An unwavering quantum capable of retaining its innate algebraic property across subdivisions. A measure, or so they believed, of the building block of the universe itself.
This infinitesimally small measure, they called : truti.
Of the nine Observatories built, five were hidden amidst the Yantras of Maharaja Sawai Jaisingh’s creations, three others have been found in various states of decay, scattered across museums and places of worship. Only one remains unrecorded, the ninth and the largest Observatory.
It is this observatory that we search for on the plains of Nanku.
An old project of ours, called - In Between Spaces - is now online.
It is a small compilation of six listening rooms. Where each room hosts a recording of and work songs by Shubhasree Bhattacharyya.
You can download it here : http://www.soundspaces.in/
The library at Matsyapur.
For the past month and a half we have been working on a small museum of work songs. It is a collaborative project with another filmmaker and researcher at IFA. The images above are from the small rooms or listening spaces, that contain the individual tracks that are to be displayed, in the museum.
An early trailer for Somewhere.
Some images from our build, for the India Foundation for the Arts.