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Sosowsky. MESSHOF. Cactus (Jonatan Söderström) Slam of the arcade age. Brog. Game Title | Glorious Trainwrecks. Game Title: Lost Levels | Glorious Trainwrecks. Note. Chris Priestman - What Are Punk Games? Unk games don’t really exist. The term “punk games” is something that I’ve been using recently to describe my favorite types of games, because I’m that kid who makes wide circles with his arms and rapidly brushes all of the toys inwards, away from the other, bigger children. But I’m now going to tell you what I consider a punk game to be, and I’m going to give you some examples that you can go off and play, too. Last week, I went to A MAZE. in Johannesburg, South Africa, where I gave a Pecha Kucha on Punk Games.

A Pecha Kucha is a rapid-fire presentation consisting of twenty slides, and the speaker has twenty seconds to say what they have to about each one. I’d never done this before, and it was pretty intense, but I managed to spew out most of what I wanted to say. [A short video showing off some punk games] But, please, don’t start saying that indie games aren’t obscure, undervalued and punk any more, Andy. The transfer is probably a lot smoother than you may think. Bear with me.