How Origame Digital are channelling and defacing Lovecraft over a trilogy of “inherently indigenous” anti-fascist games

Much like the H.P. Lovecraft novella it alternately riffs on and skewers, Penguin Colony takes you to an ancient alien city of crabby cuboid geometry and helical designs – comparable at a glance to Lovecraft's "terraces of every sort of provocative disproportion", but here given strangely everyday, anachronistic-seeming labels, such as "Downtown". Later, you're shown flashes of footage of the streets of Melbourne in Australia – developer Origame Digital's base of operations, and a city built on stolen Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung…

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