A few years ago I completed a project called The Pirate Bay Bundle. It was a bundled torrent of one hundred freeware videogames put on The Pirate Bay. It was a curational distribution experiment and notably my most “successful” project.

My current project, which I have now dubbed One Thousand Voices, a twitter thread with each tweet containing one different videogame creator accompanied by a gif of a videogame that they created (or helped create), was started as a springboard that was going to lead up to its successor, however I have come to look at it as its spiritual successor.

Over the course of its completion, it has garnered coverage on numerous websites and over one thousand retweets. It has a beginning, a middle and an end.

While the project achieved these skin deep achievements, it also has intended subtexts (some pictured below). I’ll leave it up to you to decide what it did or didn’t manage to accomplish.

Whatever the case, regardless of its successes and failures, I am proud of it.

In truth, I fucked it up. I had a whole other half planned where I was going to send out a detailed questionnaire to the videogame creators in the thread about their upbringings and how it has affected their work within the medium but I worked so hard on the thread itself that I ran out of time and energy.

I feel after having worked on this for over a year that I should be able to impart something profound or poetic or be able to share a deeper truth about videogames. The deeper truth is that I have no deeper truths to share. Videogames can be beautiful and chaotic and yet the medium remains largely unexplored. Popular big name AAA releases are discussed endlessly, while just about everything else gets tossed to the side.

Everything I do is an attempt to explore a little nook of videogames that would otherwise remain unexplored and unhighlighted.

I encourage everyone that engages with this project in good faith to make their own discoveries and celebrate the diverse videogame creators within.

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