Chris Baker: I make things on the internet

The GOP Arcade

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Created with Mike Lacher and Brian Moore

An experiment in lightweight games that function as social and political commentary. Nominated for an Emmy Award in Outstanding New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture.

The New York Times, Polygon, Backchannel, Fast Co., NowThis, Paper, Spin, Paste, Mic., Fusion, The Next Web, Slate, Kotaku, Guardian, Boston Globe, Daily Dot, Mic., Kotaku, Business Insider, The Verge, The Next Web, Mashable, Elite Daily, Kill Screen, GOOD, Kotaku, Polygon, New Scientist, The Fader, Paste, A.V. Club, The Verge, BoingBoing, , NY Post, Curbed, amNewYork, Gothamist, The Outline, Pix11, VICE, NBC, NY1, Mashable, The Verge, and more

Thoughts & Prayers: the game

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Created with Mike Lacher and Brian Moore

Built in under three days and launched after the Orlando shooting, over 50 million thoughts and or prayers have been sent with no discernible effect on gun violence.

Rolling Stone, BoingBoing, Slate, Paper, Spin, Paste, Mic., Fusion, The Next Web, Slate, Kotaku, Guardian, Boston Globe, Daily Dot, Mic., The Week

Lightyear.fm

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Created with Mike Lacher, Brian Moore, and Mika Chernov

An interactive music video that shows you how far radio waves have traveled through space. Built in Html5 and three.js. Featuring over 600 stars and thousands of Billboard top hits dating back to 1906 (the first musical broadcast).

Wired, Kottke, The Takeaway, Kotaku, Reddit, Huffington Post, Daily Mail, Star Tribune, IB Times, Gizmodo, Av Club, Fast Co., Webbys

Drunk Shopping

Created with Mike Lacher and Tiger Wang

A somewhat charming bot that texted you dumb shit to buy late night on Saturdays, you know, when you’re hammered. Acquired by Super Deluxe.

Unbaby.me

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Created with Pete Marquis and Yvonne Cheng

A browser extension that removed baby pictures from your Facebook newsfeed by replacing them with something better, like cats.

Seeing Eye People

Made with Buzzfeed and ImprovEverywhere

A helpful service for people who wanted to more efficiently walk and text.

The World’s Most Exclusive Website

Created with Jeff Greenspan, Doug Loffredo and Mike Lacher

A website that only lets verified Twitter users in. Some notables who got through the front door: Jerry Bruckheimer, Ryan Seacrest, Ronaldinho, and Kim Kardashian.

NY MAG Approval Matrix, Market Place, Boing Boing, SCPR, Mother Jones, Business Insider, Business Insider, Business Insider, Mashable, Buzzfeed, Neatorama, GQ, Trendhunter, PSFK

Cloak

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Created with Brian Moore, Jay Schaul, and Mike Kavouras

Cloak was an app that used location data from your social networks to let you know where all your friends, “friends,” and nonfriends are at all times so you never have to run into that special someone. Think of it as the antisocial network.

Troll the NSA

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Created with Mike Lacher

Built and launched in the wake of Snowden’s spying revelations, Troll the NSA was a call to arms to get people to jam up the state surveillance apparatus by collectively sending an innocuous sounding letter filled with possible terror “keywords” to each other. In under 24 hours, millions of emails were sent and Anonymous latched onto the project and brought down NSA.gov in a DDOS attack.