Banner image caption: a disheveled bed sits at the centre of a dark bedroom. A spotlight shines on the pillow and a second one shines on the floor to the right, next to a washing basket.
lag by Kasey Gambling (work in progress)
“…but tonight you belong to me.”
lag is a bleak, browser-based puzzle game where the player repeatedly attempts to leave multiple versions of the same empty room.
Content warning: strobe effects.
Exhibition history:
NewGame+: Imagined Worlds from the School for Poetic Computation, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY (2025)
Creator Kasey Gambling
Browser-Based Experience, performance and video, 2024 -
Video excerpt
A short video excerpt from lag. A first-person game played in browser, the video shows an unseen player navigating a bleak bedroom, with no exit. Upon standing near a desk, a wall disappears and reveals a second bedroom. The player can now exit, walking towards the revealed 2nd bedroom.