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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-03T09:45:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com",
  "tags": [
    "Mac",
    "Club Penguin",
    "Pirates of the Caribbean Online",
    "Fusion Fall",
    "MMORPG",
    "Disney Interactive Studios",
    "Bird view / Isometric",
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  "textContent": "I've really been getting into videogame collages, lately – projects like Funi Racoon, a verminous cache of Windows 95 desktop materials and Easter Island sculpture, and Water Level/b.l.u.e. EXPLORATION, a \"plunderludic\" in which Dark Souls, Super Mario 64, and Kingdom Hearts swim through each other. To that short list add Texturetown, \"an algorithmically remixed MMO created from assets of now-defunct mid-2000's children's MMOs\", devised by LA-based academic Aidan Strong. It's an eerie, dysfunctional homage to an early noughties gold rush in online spaces for kids, a Backroom-style memorial to abandoned servers and the youthful experiences they once facilitated. God, I'm old.\n\nRead more",
  "title": "Texturetown is a Frankenstein's MMO created by remixing Club Penguin, Pirates of the Caribbean Online and other dead MMOs"
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