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Six Degrees of Play

The history of video games, wired up like a conspiracy board. Everything connects to everything.

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The Six Degrees of Play galaxy: thousands of games glowing as linked nodes in 3D

Build log

  1. The Six Degrees of Play galaxy view, with hundreds of glowing game box-art tiles scattered like stars across dark 3D space and linked by colored lines into a bright central cluster.

    Why a galaxy, not a graph

    The first version was a flat 2D graph. Then I added more games and it fell apart, and I realized the right shape was a night sky, not a diagram.

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