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Welcome to THE BROWSER SPEAKS, a webzine of The Browser is Already a Game Engine, a SFPC course that ran in the summer of 2026.

For 10 weeks, me, assistant teacher Tee Topor, and 20-odd students met every Sunday to think about the browser, its particular affordances, and the kinds of games those affordances could support. We focused on existing HTML object model elements, eschewing frameworks, libraries and even the HTML5 canvas.

Instead, the work that came out of our thinking were games that are also truly websites- driven by hyperlinks or iframes or drop-downs or < details > tags. They are not games that are tricking the browser into acting like a 3d engine (no webGL exports here) but are instead looking at the playful elements already present in the browser and going “ah, yes, this is all we need”. We talked, played, learned, discussed and made all summer, and this is the result of that learning.

The artists, developers, writers and experimenters in this zine include:

• Helen Shewolfe Tseng
• Symoné
• Marty McGuire
• Samiha Alam
• Q1
• Clara Nolan
• greatboson
• Yuna Lee
• Dorothy R. Santos
• jonathan w. y. gray
• Angie Wolfrum
• M. Ezra Zhang
• Theo Unkrich
• Aslı Akın
and
• ceara margaret hennessey

Produced with support from The School for Poetic Computation by Everest Pipkin with help from Tee Topor.