Three and a half years since our last blog post about Tally, and people are still signing up and playing the game. In the meantime, Owen and I have tucked away to work on individual projects that inevitably develop into collaborations. Chasing the Sun is one of those bodies of work. Pictured above is from … continue reading
2021-22 Tally News
Tally Saves the Internet continues to go strong. Play online and/or check it out in person at the following upcoming events. October 22–November 7, 2021, Digitale Düsseldorf 2021 Spring 2022 events (details TBD) Premiere of Tally Tracker Explorer at NC State University’s Visualization Studio Artist talk and workshop on browser extensions at the Gallery@CalIT2, University of California, San … continue reading
2021 Tally News
Lots of exciting Tally-related news! The Tally Saves the Internet‘s browser extension has been much improved since we released the beta late 2020. If you were an early adopter, it would be great if you could try it again and give us feedback in the survey. Tally Tracker Explorer is finally finished! You can downloaded … continue reading
Choose Your Avatar
Since the beta launch of Tally eight weeks ago, we’ve made vast amounts of improvement in game play, thanks to players’ feedback. One improvement includes the ability to change your avatar. By default, one of the above avatars is randomly assigned to your account. But now you can easily change your Tally pict to your … continue reading
Explode-the-Web Gifs
Today we added these sweet explode-the-web to https://tallysavestheinternet.com/press Check them out! … continue reading
Explode the Web
One of my favorite features of Tally is the explode-the-web game mechanic. We wrote about it in the 2019 Signal Culture Cookbook, V2 (link to book, pdf of our chapter and browser extension on GitHub). In our game Tally Saves the Internet, you explode the web every time you defeat a product monster. Enjoy! … continue reading
Thinking of Beirut
Before Tally Saves the Internet, we launched our first game The Speed of Thinking. It’s a simple game where you stack shipping containers onto a cargo ship (sort of like Tetris meets Jenga). It’s strangely meditative in the way that endless shopping online can be for some people, but it’s a game that you can … continue reading
Tally’s Learn More Page
For our friends gearing up for a new semester, we hope our Tally’s Learn More page will be helpful for anyone that wants to talk about dataveillance this semester EFF, Eva & Franco Mattes, Ghostery, Hito Steyerl, John Gilliom, Joy Buolamwini, Laura Kurgan, Lauren Mccarthy, Mozilla, Sam Lavigne, Shoshana Zuboff, The Privacy Project, Tor Browser, … continue reading
Tally Saves the Internet Is Live!
Today, we’re launching our game Tally Saves the Internet at https://tallysavestheinternet.com/ Tally Saves the Internet is a browser extension that transforms data advertisers collect into a multiplayer game. Once installed, a friendly pink blob named Tally lives in the corner of your screen and warns you when companies translate your human experiences into free behavioral … continue reading
Tally Badges!
Tally has hundreds of game assets including badges like this one, awarded for reading fine print. #sneakawaystudio #tally #tallysavestheinternet Launching August 4, 2020! More at https://tallygame.net/ … continue reading