A free-to-play collectible card game with a deckbuilder at its core: each turn you buy cards into your deck and spend them in the same fight. Four factions, more than twenty heroes, a story campaign, ranked ladder and cross-faction draft, all cross-platform between Steam, phone and web.
Made by Mike through Fifth Column Games and released on Steam in February 2019. He led programming and also worked on design. Every card can be earned through play.
An alternate reality game extending the final season of Mr. Robot. It won the 2020 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Interactive Extension of a Linear Program — the first Emmy nomination and win for Fifth Column Games.
Produced by Fifth Column Games with USA Network and Ralph Interactive. The award also credits producer Roxanne Paredes and writer Jeff McKibben. It beat Stranger Things' "Scoops Ahoy: Operation Scoop Snoop" and Westworld's "Free Will Is Not Free."
TODO — a link to the ARG itself. Also confirm how you want your own role described — the trade coverage quotes you as Fifth Column's COO, which isn't the same as a credit line. And confirm who drew the solve map below before this goes live: its annotations read player-side, so it may be the community's work rather than the team's.
Most of what the ARG asked people to do was look harder at a file they already had. These are production artifacts, shown as delivered and again with the hidden layer brought up.
The solve map is roughly 9,900 pixels square at full size — every screen, cipher, wrong turn and hint in one sheet. Open it and zoom.
A gaming webcomic by Mike Fahmie and Jeremy Vinar, published twice a week for nearly four years. It ran to 422 comics and ended, deliberately, in June 2013 — the last strip is about ending it.
The original domain has since lapsed and now points somewhere unrelated. This site's archive was reconstructed from recovered source files and the Internet Archive's 2014 capture.
Browse the complete numbered archive →
Launch the random comic generator (#193) →
A selection from the full archive: 431 recovered images across all 432 numbered entries, with the sole missing image retained in sequence.
An 8-bit Mario world built across four floors of a university building's windows out of Post-it notes — designed as a mockup first, then put up in a single night. The photographs below are timestamped 11:03 PM to 12:02 AM.
TODO — you mentioned this one went viral, and the salvaged archive contains a folder named NintendoPower-PostitMario. Neither claim is stated above, because a folder name isn't a citation and a search didn't turn up a source. Give me the Nintendo Power issue and any coverage links and I'll put the reach back in — it's the strongest thing about this project.
A rover built on a Rabbitcore Z-180 microcontroller. A swiveling infrared distance sensor swept the forward 270° arc to build a distance map, which was translated into a surface height map and used for route selection. The height map went back to a base station over CRC-encoded RF, along with coordinates, to assemble a map of the explored territory.
Written in C with X-Forms and OpenGL on Unix. A basic 3D modeler plus an image loader, generating stereograms — Magic Eye images — from 3D scenes.
TODO — description. The original write-up is still up at yikes.com/~pengo/xiat.html if you want to adapt it rather than rewrite.