Browser game · nostalgia · hosted on the web
847 songs. One click wheel.
847 songs, a click wheel, and West Campus in 2006. Spin the wheel and see what loads.
What this is
A device, a year, and a neighborhood.
Sam’s iPod 2006 recreates a specific object at a specific moment: an iPod with a click wheel, loaded with 847 songs, in West Campus in 2006. You spin the wheel and see what loads.
It’s a personal artifact turned playable—one library, one year, one person’s taste preserved exactly.
The playable game lives at sams-ipod-2006.netlify.app. This page is its home in the Brand New Colors portfolio.
Behind the game
A music library is already a portrait.
Of all the things Brand New Colors has made playable, this is the smallest world: one device belonging to one person. And it still passes the studio’s test, because a 2006 music library is dense with information—what someone loved, what they skipped, who they were that year.
The interface does the rest. A click wheel is already a game controller; it just spent a few years pretending to be a music player.
Who it welcomes
Made for the people who’d get it.
- Anyone who owned a click wheel and remembers exactly what was on it.
- Anyone curious what a single year of one person’s life sounds like.
A Brand New Colors game.
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