Book

Over the Riddle

FuturesForesight
How will we create, access and play digital games in 2036?

This book is a product of a Collaborative Foresight cycle on Futures of Games hosted by Media Evolution in collaboration with Game Habitat and Minc, with additional funding from the Region of Skåne.

Contents

Chapters
Opening chapter Preface
The Taking Part Future 1
Hardcore 4 Ever Future 2
Fifteen Minutes Future 3
Cactus Jack’s Last Run Future 4
The Games We Play, the Futures We Create Commentary
A Short History of the Future of AI in Games Commentary
Sorocula Fiction
Epilogue Epilogue

Process

This book is a product of a Collaborative Foresight cycle on Futures of Games hosted by Media Evolution in collaboration with Game Habitat and Minc. In this process, experts and practitioners from our communities came together with the broader local community to dive deeply into the topic at hand and imagine its possible, plausible, and preferable futures.

Colophon

  • Publisher: Media Evolution, Game Habitat and Minc
  • Editors: Reeta Hafner, Martin Thörnkvist
  • Foresight Facilitator: Reeta Hafner
  • Illustrator: Jakob Tuchten
  • Graphic concept: HolsterGreen Studio
  • Layout: Linnea Paulsson Neppelberg
  • ISBN: 978-91-987390-1-5
  • Published: September 2026
  • 140 pages

Writers

  • Paul Graham Raven
  • Bobbi A Sand
  • Julian Togelius
  • Ahmed Khalifa
  • David Polfeldt

Core Contributors

  • Alexander Strandberg
  • Anja Woracek
  • Björn Flintberg
  • Brian Bartram
  • Brynley Gibson
  • Eliana Oikawa
  • Gaspar Stiglich
  • Johanna Forsman
  • Kamile Vaskelyte-Grigaityte
  • Kennedy Bailey
  • Kimberly McGuire
  • Kristofer Ling
  • Kseniia Ponomarenko
  • Lina Wijkander
  • Martin Walfisz
  • Mathias Torp
  • Peter Josef (PJ) Kuczynski
  • Peter Lübeck
  • Pål Schakonat
  • Raquel Robinson
  • Renée Jessen
  • Sam El Saati
  • Tasha Stokić
Jakob Tuchten
Jakob Tuchten

Funding

This book is a product of a Collaborative Foresight cycle on Futures of Games hosted by Media Evolution in collaboration with Game Habitat and Minc, with additional funding from the Region of Skåne.

Logotyper för Futures of Games och samarbetspartners
Media Evolution Logo

September 2026

Media Evolution

Media Evolution is a community-owned, non-profit platform for co-creation, knowledge sharing, and futures-thinking. We are situated in Malmö, Sweden, where we run a place for work and meetings. Media Evolution was founded in 2008 as a collaboration between the private, public, and academic sectors — united by the idea that innovation happens best when we work across disciplines.

Related Articles

Media Evolution | Over the Riddle