Texturetown is an algorithmic MMO collage built from the corpses of Club Penguin, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, and other dead kids' MMOs

Texturetown is an algorithmic MMO collage built from the corpses of Club Penguin, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, and other dead kids' MMOs
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LA-based academic Aidan Strong built Texturetown – an algorithmically remixed MMO assembled from the assets of defunct mid-2000s children's online games. Club Penguin, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, and other long-dead servers get mashed together into one eerie, broken world.

The project sits alongside a growing genre of videogame collages – think Funi Racoon or Water Level/b.l.u.e. EXPLORATION, which blends Dark Souls, Super Mario 64, and Kingdom Hearts into a single space. Texturetown works as a Backrooms-style memorial to abandoned servers and the childhood experiences that once lived on them.

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