# How Origame Digital are channelling and defacing Lovecraft over a trilogy of “inherently indigenous” anti-fascist games

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/how-origame-digital-are-channelling-and-defacing-lovecraft-over-a-trilogy-of-inherently-indigenous-anti-fascist-games/
- Published: 2026-11-13T14:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-13T15:36:35+00:00
- Original publisher: Rock Paper Shotgun
- Original article: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-origame-digital-are-channelling-and-defacing-lovecraft-over-a-trilogy-of-inherently-indigenous-anti-fascist-games
- Topics: Paranormal, Weird & Viral

## Key points

- *Penguin Colony* reworks Lovecraft as an anti-colonial critique.
- Its city draws on Melbourne and Minecraft’s 2b2t server.
- Māori voyagers confront Nazi occultists in the game.

## Summary

Origame Digital’s *Penguin Colony* recasts H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror through an anti-colonial lens, turning familiar images of an ancient alien city into a critique of colonial settlement. The game also challenges portrayals of Australian history that celebrate its landscapes while overlooking the violence of colonisation.

Players explore as a Rockhopper penguin and, in another section, as Māori voyagers trying to stop German and British Nazi occultists from reviving a being they call the “one true Aryan king”. The city draws on Melbourne, built on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung land, and on the ravaged terrain of Minecraft’s 2b2t server, which the developer describes as a depiction of colonisation without rules or regrowth.

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