Six Degrees of Play

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

2026 web appgames history

The build, start to finish

24 June 2026
It started with a music map I couldn't stop clicking
I borrowed the idea off a music influence website, then went looking for the same hidden wiring in games. It turned into a 3D star map of fifty years of game history, and one problem I still haven't cracked.
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25 June 2026
The two kinds of wire
A line between two games can mean two completely different things: one I draw by hand because it tells a story, one the machine infers from the data. Plus the boring duplicate problem that nearly ate the whole project.
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