Games of Chance – ZORA ZINE

Chaos can be used as a way to stick a middle finger up to the establishment, one-upping one brand of absurdity with another. It doesn’t have to be that deep – a cultural climate of nihilism means that we’re not necessarily out here to change things – but it does need to be fun.

Attempting to define, quantify and strategize around the zeitgeist is a game of tag. That’s what we’re after. That’s the Sisyphean task. It’s utterly daunting and exhausting, but that challenge is also where the opportunity (and fun) lies.

The niche is flourishing — winning even — and we’re beginning to finally find representation in our products and titles. There’s something for each of our tastes. Communities too. It’s never been easier to find your tribe. And with that, tribalism.

We’re evidently in control of our view of culture. And with that, bespoke facts and realities.

God games — made specifically to be abstract, simplified, and ambiguous — invite this sort of loss as a kind of mastery.

Applying universal logic gives our experiences a certain weight and our lives a certain order. I assume this is why we’re so drawn to recasting our life stories into tidy narratives and lessons to be shared with others. But in doing this we risk underestimating chaos, nuance, idiosyncrasy, and the occasional dose of self-delusion.