In the Neural #30 the game Wanderer is featured by Julian Oliver in his article Be My Controller: Opening up the Urban, Button by Button.:

“Wanderer (Jonas Hielscher and Jiri Heitlager 2005) explores strictly automated instruction, a machine’s authority over the movement of an otherwise ‘free’ subject, as a platform for a kind of auto-dérive. (…) The real game of Wanderer is between the player and themselves, their ability to wholly and effectively commit their bodily movement, their freedom of action, to the instructions of a machine. (…) As such by playing with control in urban environments, with authority over ourselves, we’re given a valuable opportunity to learn more about how and why we allow cities and societies to steer our desires, actions and movements within them.” wanderer_neural2 Furthermore the issue is packed with lots of interesting articles about new media art . Ludic Society/Margarete Jahrmann interview . Homo Ludens Ludens exhibition report . Play Cultures, the world of digital games in contemporary art and culture report . Be My Controller, opening the urban, button by button .news: Emotoscope, Modi 2.0, Rom Check Fail, Amalgus Cycle