Oma Keeling (they/them) is an experimental game designer and critic. Their work explores queer history, poetry, and punk art in ways that are messy, inspiring, and often hard to explain. Oma joined me to discuss their early games work at art school, the complicated relationship games have to history, and how they seem to keep making games about falling in love with vehicles.
Read MoreQueerheart (Afterglow Games, 2019) is an attempt at a digital gallery. It compiles vintage adverts, poems, clips of silent films, alongside original works taking a variety of forms. Click around the halls and you’re taken to different non-spaces: a vaporwave poetry corner, some hotel rooms hiding text-to-speech memoirs, a tv playing clips of early queer cinema. It is the inversion of the white cube – vibrant, messy, enveloping.
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