GAME CHAT SHOP

As a server death comes, players navigate a game, a chat, and a shop across three browser windows — different dimensions of embodiment, scale, and time in dialogue with each other. Where does the game end and the self begin?

As a server death comes, players navigate a game, chat, and a shop across browser windows—different dimensions of embodiment, scale, and time in dialogue with each other. Time runs out in your computer shop session, ads disrupt, calls leak, the spam of the real-world against the chaos of the room. The discontinuities of the game and real worlds bring us to search for boundaries that might not exist, where both the avatar and the self are constantly fragmented, where we do not know where our technology ends and where we begin..

GAME CHAT SHOP is accompanied by a meta-commentary .txt guide, inspired by .txt file GameFAQs walkthroughs from the early 2000s. Read in full at GAMECHATSHOP.com/guides/GAMECHATSHOP.txt