Infinite Graveyard: 11-hour video of procedurally generated digital cemetery

Mikhail Maksimov's Infinite Graveyard is a 666-minute video (about 11 hours) showing a camera flying over an infinite digital cemetery in a Russian forest. The work is a recording of a procedurally generated environment created by an algorithm, distributed on itch.io as game art. It references video game aesthetics and the 2008 influential game The Graveyard by Tale of Tales, where an old woman walks through a cemetery and may die. The article discusses death in video games, monetization through player death in arcade games, and queer theory's revaluation of failure in gaming, citing Bonnie Ruberg's work. Infinite Graveyard reinterprets generative algorithms, typically associated with life and creation, to produce a fixed, death-like result. The video streams free on VRAL (Milan Machinima Festival supplement) until November 12. The procedural generator is sold for $666 on itch.io, and a free smartphone game version is also available.