Andy and Anthony talk with Zach Barash about his Obscura cube designed from the prompt “Omelas.” The references a short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin in which a society maintains utopia on the condition that a single child is made to suffer endlessly. Zach’s cube embodies the questions of social rules and ethics, putting players into the position of deciding whether or not to embrace authoritarian fascism.

Discussed in this episode:

• Omelas by Zach Barash
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Feudal
• Anti War
• 100 Ornithopters
• Neoclassical Cube
• Planar Cube

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