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
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
Today we added these sweet explode-the-web to https://tallysavestheinternet.com/press Check them out! … continue reading
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
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
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 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
We are using command line tools to manage images for Tally Saves the Internet. We have 170 monsters at the moment with various variations in color, spritesheets, resolution, resulting on over 3,000 unique files. This week we wanted to speed up the creation of silhouette images for the game and used Imagemagick to automate this. … continue reading
We’re excited for Tally to be one of the projects sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. More at https://cltc.berkeley.edu/2019/10/02/winners-of-2019-cybersecurity-arts-contest Except from the announcement: Internet users are often not aware they are continually exposing private information about themselves through cookies and other digital trackers. Artists Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy aim to bring attention … continue reading
The Speed of Thinking Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy August 26, 2019— September 25, 2019 Van Every Gallery, Davidson College More info “Your work in this exhibition is dominated by screens in terms of its production and reception, but, crucially, you also seem to be critically interrogating screens, or how screens work in society. You’ve … continue reading