I.N.T. magazine is a publication for those who seek to learn from “others” across the globe and, in doing so, create games that are deeper and more compelling.
I love games—not only playing them, but uncovering why they hold us so powerfully. I want to understand their structures and the histories behind them. That desire is why I founded this magazine. We speak with creators shaped by different cultures and pasts, record their ideas and practices, and from them build new hypotheses. We then share these conversations with those who will make the games of tomorrow.
To make play is an act of intellect. By “intellect” we mean more than individual instinct or technique: it is the culture of a team, the societies and peoples that have formed us, and even the histories of nations. We care about the conditions from which that intellect arises, and we aim to document “games” as an accumulation of knowledge—and to write them into history.
This publication was launched by the Japanese independent studio Why So Serious?, creators of titles such as NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE. Jini, an independent game critic based in Japan, serves as founding editor-in-chief and shaped the brand and design.
I.N.T. magazine is presently run as a nonprofit endeavor. Our truest aim, however, is to use it to find companions around the world—people with whom we can speak about the secrets of games. At PAX, at gamescom, at ChinaJoy, at Tokyo Game Show—we hope to meet you and talk through the night: “Why is that new release so captivating?” “Here is the history embedded in the work I made.”
Roughly eighty years have passed since the birth of digital games, and more than two millennia for their analog forebears. We have played great works before our home monitors and built new ones at office desks. Now, games are being pioneered everywhere, evolving in ways none of us foresaw. And so we step away from the keyboard and set out to seek their secrets.
Somewhere, someday, we will meet you.
Why So Serious? Inc.
Daichi Saito,President & CEO
https://whysoserious.jp