The DIY ethos can be applied to just about anything. Doing it yourself could mean creating the perfect tool for designing more personal video games, or communing with nature to make strange new music. Or maybe it means handcrafting a terrifyingly realistic doll that looks like a vampire baby. This collection of stories seeks to explore the myriad ways that people are using that DIY mentality to make the world a little more interesting — and a lot weirder.
Twitch star Xmiramira is fighting against lackluster Black skin in The Sims
Amira Virgil learned to mod The Sims 4 to combat the game’s poor presentation of Black skin
Real Deal: Creators are making their own IRL Inscryption cards
Creators are making their own IRL cards based on Inscryption’s deck-building video game
Handmade monster babies and the people who love them
Artists are crafting incredibly lifelike monsters, and fans can’t get enough
Tin Man: photography using an old-fashioned tintype process
Joseph Wyman Brown captures modern people with 19th-century photography
Bitsy is the small video game engine with a big community
Alongside digital DIY tools like Twine, Bitsy has made game-making genuinely approachable
The patchwork groups sharing gender-affirming underwear patterns
It can be ‘impossible to find something that fully represents who you are’
These artists are making tiny ROMs that will probably outlive us all
Come sail away with Hundred Rabbits
Craig of the Creek’s creators open up about building a show with DIY in its heart
What happens when DIY and imagination collide