Alistair Aitcheson

Game developer and performer, creating alternative game controllers and hosting playable stage shows

Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Homunculus - Lyst Summit 2017

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Earlier in the month I was at Lyst Summit in Copenhagen. While I was there I worked on a playful performance called Being There , which I’v...
Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Being There: An Interactive Performance for Lyst Summit

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A couple of weekends ago I flew to Copenhagen to take part in Lyst Summit , a symposium and game jam about love, sex and romance in video ga...
Monday, 5 June 2017

How Sonic the Hedgehog Uses Colour

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There’s a lot of excellent use of colour in the very first Sonic the Hedgehog game on Sega Mega Drive. Visual readability has been a pers...
Monday, 29 May 2017

On What Games Are

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My brother asked me a very interesting question last time I came to visit. He’s an author , and we were talking about why we do what we do. ...
Sunday, 5 March 2017

Building a Glitchable Mega Drive Emulator

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This is a little project I did back last summer, to explore glitching games. I've long been inspired by speedrunning , and glitches like...
Wednesday, 15 February 2017

The Human in the Machine

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ELIZA was the world’s first digital psychotherapist. Created from 1964 to 1966, long before Siri and Cortana, long even before the first co...
Monday, 6 February 2017

The Incredible Playable Show comes to Screenshake Antwerp

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This Saturday I'll be bringing The Incredible Playable Show to the Screenshake 2017 festival in Antwerp, Belgium. The show takes pla...
Tuesday, 29 November 2016

The Mega Cooperator - a Teamwork-Fuelled Custom Controller

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The Mega Cooperator is a custom controller I built for Sega Mega Drive consoles. It plugs into the console's controller port and mimics...
Sunday, 27 November 2016

Welcome to the Incredible Playable Show!

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Current show dates for The Incredible Playable Show are listed on the show website Follow The Incredible Playable Show on Facebook for ne...
Thursday, 10 November 2016

Winner of the GameCity Spirit of the Festival Award

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Autumn 2016 has been a busy season for me and Codex Bash ! September saw me jetting off to Abu Dhabi to run it at an A MAZE popup at the Di...
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Alistair Aitcheson
Game developer and host of video game stage show The Incredible Playable Show. Makes weird controllers including games made with paper shredders and games where players tie buttons to their bodies. IndieCade award winner in 2015 (Media Choice - Codex Bash), 2017 (Jury Choice - The Incredible Playable Show) and 2022 (Performance Award - Artholomew Video's Stream Challenge)A MAZE nominee in 2016 (Codex Bash) and 2022 (Artholomew Video's Stream Challenge) Alt.Ctrl.GDC nominee in 2019 (The Book Ritual)
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