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Welcome back to The Peliplat Dispatch! A newsletter rounding up all the recent highlights on Peliplat, brought to you by… Me! Alex, from the Peliplat HQ. Read all the previous issues of The Peliplat Dispatch here 🔦 new creator spotlight 🔦 Amongst all the challenges and events, it's easy to miss some diamonds in the rough. I highly recommend checking out these new writers. Give them a follow & re

There is a deep connection that can be made between a mother and daughter. Not everyone in life gets this bond, but for me, I’ll admit it, my mother is my best friend. Those of us who have this relationship with our mothers, we never want them to leave us. That inevitable truth, the fact of life, that we all will one day die still remains. It becomes our worst fear and the thought of it haunts our

Backrooms stuck with me more than I thought it would. Maybe it’s the fact that I forgot to take my meds two days in a row. Maybe it’s because I watched the movie at 10am on a Monday and then went to work right after. Or maybe it’s because I knew I had a looming 90 minute transit ride out to Burnaby after work to grab a package from the post office and then take another 90 minutes back home — in th

When a friend of mine excitedly told me about Exit 8, I was hooked. A never-ending subway hallway filled with perilous tests? Narrative about daddy issues? Based on a video game? Okay, yeah, now we're talking. The trailer hinted at a bittersweet, underlying intergenerational trauma narrative manifested through horror, which fully sold me. I was ready for some Hereditary styled story-telling, mixed

IP. Intellectual Property. What a word combination. Play with it (and a thesaurus) for a hot minute, and you get a creepy and fairly accurate snapshot of the current times: Analytical Capital. Intelligent Assets. Logical Ownership. Theoretical Wealth. How does that sound appealing to anyone except suits and bankers?! But in the age of the AI bubble, it’s no wonder the American entertainment indust

A hopeful criticism of contemporary "filmmaking" and the inability to replicate real cinema in a machine. I’d like to start by posing a question to all the artists reading this article. How close do you feel to the art you create? ‘I Can’t Paint’ by Aarti Shinde Whether it’s an article, a doodle on your grocery list or a project you’ve spent your life working on, chances are that your art is perso