My latest attempt at something unusual, Polygon’s Indie Developer Science Fair is a package of 17 projects I asked developers to submit to show off their games in creative ways.

This came about because I was spending a lot of time thinking of DVD-style bonus features we could add to stories on the site — like how we had Media Molecule design a papercraft figure to go along with a feature on the making of Tearaway — and at a certain point, I figured it might be interesting to just put together a bunch of those on their own.

We ended up with a decent mix of projects: an augmented reality app, a Twine game, a mixtape, screenshots that work with 3-D glasses, etc. And I was thrilled to work with PaRappa the Rapper illustrator Rodney Greenblat for the cover art. Though in retrospect, I wasn’t happy with the package design, I should have cut some of the entries, and I should have set time/budget aside to take photos of all the physical items, because it was a hard concept to get across and that would have helped people understand it.