Press

• “Glitched into empty space: why video games are obsessed with the Backrooms” by Alex Spencer – The Guardian, July 28, 2026
• “Silence and Spectacle: Maurizio Cattelan’s Wordless Gala, Chicago” – Artefuse, April 16, 2026
• “Maurizio Cattelan Turned This Years RenBen Gala into a Silent Party” by Elisa Carollo – Observer, April 10, 2026
• “Adjunct Faculty Member’s Game Wins Award for Technical Achievement” – Columbia College Chicago News, April 8, 2026
• “The D.I.C.E. Awards 2026 winners & finalists” by Sam Chandler – Shacknews, February 12, 2026
• “Hotel Infinity review: walking in circles never felt so fun” by Denis Koshelev – Root Nation, January 31, 2026
• “This impossible game from the studio behind one of 2019’s best puzzlers is already melting my brain – and proves VR still has the power to amaze” by Matt Wales – Eurogamer, November 27, 2025
• “Hotel Infinity Review: A Standout Example Of True Room-Scale VR” – by Alicia Haddick – UploadVR, November 21, 2025
• “How architecture shapes video game play” by Gabriele Aroni – The Conversation, April 15, 2025
• “Hidden Gems On Apple Arcade” by Hilton Webster – TheGamer, November 15, 2023
• “‘Manifold Garden’ creator William Chyr wants you to think in three dimensions” by Will Fulton – Digital Trends, April 25, 2023
• “Falling endlessly for Manifold Garden” by Ryan Lambie – Film Stories, November 25, 2020
• “Manifold Garden Review: A Puzzling Gauntlet Of Infinity” by Alex Santa Maria – ScreenRant, August 25, 2020
• “Manifold Garden – Up Is Down And Down Is Up?” by Craig Patten – Thumb Culture, September 7, 2020
• “‘Manifold Garden’ Designer Made a Puzzle Game So They Could Be Good at Playing One” by Patrick Klepek – Vice, August 19, 2020
• “This gravity-defying new game is even trippier than ‘Inception’” by Todd Martens – Los Angeles Times, October 25, 2019
• “I got lost in Manifold Garden’s surreal puzzle of impossible geometry” by Nicole Carpenter – Polygon, October 25, 2019
• “Manifold Garden by William Chyr. Where the built environment tells a story” by Ángel Valdez – Metalocus, October 23, 2019
• “Tending the Manifold Garden” by Brendan Sinclair – GamesIndustry.biz, October 19, 2017
• “Video games level up to high art—and Chicago artist William Chyr is at the controls” by Ryan Zickgraf – Chicago Reader, August 10, 2016
• ‘‘Manifold Garden Is The Best Game You Haven’t Heard Of” by Steve Haske – Inverse, June 23, 2016
• “From Dark Souls to Manifold Garden: How games tell stories through architecture” by Thomas McMullan – Alphr, March 2016
• “Event Horizon”  – Uncube Issue 42, March 2016
• “A Video Game That Explores the Physics of Architecture” by Aarian Marshall – CityLab, December 21, 2015
• “This Video Game Has The Most Disorienting Architecture Ever” – Curbed, December 10, 2015
• “Sony focuses on the joy of gaming at PlayStation Experience” by Dean Takahashi – VentureBeat, December 8, 2015
• “Our 10 Favorite Indies From The PlayStation Experience 2015” by Kimberley Wallace, Game Informer, December 7, 2015
• “Manifold Garden is a Real Mind-Warper” by Jaz Rignall – US Gamer, December 7, 2015
• “Manifold Garden, An Incredibly Pretty Puzzle Game” by Nathan Grayson – Kotaku, December 6, 2015
• “William Chyr” – Varoom Issue 31, Autumn 2015
• “Manifold Garden: Das unmögliche Spiel, das Gehirne verknotet” by Rainer Sigl – Der Standard, November 8, 2015
• “How Manifold Garden makes reality fold back on itself” by Phill Cameron – Game Developer, October 16, 2015
• “Episode 209 – William Chyr” by John Lindvay – BigSushi.fm, October 29, 2015
• “Manifold Garden: Escher-esque exploration in a wraparound world” by Tom Sykes – PC Gamer, September 24, 2015
• “The design decisions that turnedRelativity into Manifold Garden” by Phill Cameron – Gamasutra, September 16, 2015
• “Manifold Garden is one stylish Escher-inspired puzzler” by Jeffrey Matulef – Eurogamer, September 16, 2015
• “Manifold Garden Turns Magnificent Architecture Into an Endless Playground” by Chris Priestman – Kill Screen, September 16, 2015
• “There Is No Down” by Stephen Urchick – South Side Weekly, November 18, 2014
• “IndieCade 2014 – Willy Chyr” (Podcast) by John Lindvay – BigSushi.fm, November 6, 2014
• “An Artist Is Turning MC Escher’s ‘Relativity’ into a Video Game” by Beckett Mufson – The Creators Project, October 31, 2014
• “Up in the air” by Kim O’Connor – The University of Chicago Magazine, September – October 2014
• “Balloons with Willy Chyr” by Glen Dresser – UPPERCASE, Issue 17, Spring 2013
• “Big ideas and big balloons: Artist profile on Willy Chyr Up and away” by Jeff Green – Toronto Star,January 25, 2013
• “Thursday 8am – 9am” (Televised Live Interview) – Breakfast Television Toronto on Citytv, January 24, 2013
• “How to Crowd-Source a Story” (Radio) – The Takeaway on WNYC, January 17, 2013
• “Willy Chyr (Profile)” by Kim Harty – F Newsmagazine, September 2012
• “Balloon Artist Takes On Microscopic Animals” (Radio) by Stephen Kraske – Up To Date on KCUR, June 21, 2012
• “Not your typical twisted balloons: Artist creating giant installation” by Meagan Thomas – Lawrence Journal-World, June 12, 2012
• “Balloons, Books and Beer: The Emergent Art of Willy Chyr” by Glendon Mellow – Symbiartic (Scientific American), May 31, 2012
• “Roy Lichtenstein, holding up the modern pop art mantle” (Radio) by Kate Dries – The Afternoon Shift on WBEZ Chicago, May 30, 2012
• “Balloon sculptor twists together physics and art” – CBC News, May 16, 2012
• “Beck’s beer has never looked better” by Elly Fishman – Chicago Reader, May 7, 2012
• “Chicago artwork on Beck’s beer label” by Georgia Garvey – RedEye, May 7, 2012
• “The Collabowriters” – Good Day Sacramento, May 6, 2012
• “‘It was a dark and stormy night.’ Now You Go.” by Andrew Huff – Gaper’s Block, May 4, 2012
• “Top Picks: Novel Idea” – CTV News, May 3, 2012
• “Literatura 2.0” – Revista Galileu, May 3, 2012
• “Local Makes Beck’s Art Bottle” by Andrew Huff – Gaper’s Block, May 3, 2012
• “Première sur le web, un roman participatif écrit par les internautes” (Radio) – Le 12h30 on Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS), May 2, 2012
• “Would You Read a Crowdsourced Novel?” by Heba Hasan – TIME, April 29, 2012
• “Crowdsourced Novel Gets Written by the Internet” by Emma Hutchings – PSFK, April 26, 2012
• “Would You Read a Novel Written by the Internet?” by Emily Temple – Flavorwire, April 24, 2012
• “Willy Chyr Invites the Internet to Contribute to Novel, One Sentence at a Time” by Maryann Yin – GalleyCat, April 24, 2012
• “Balloon Artist Demonstrates Link between Inflation and Happiness” by Dorian Rolston – Good News Toronto, November 19, 2011
• “Willy Chyr” – Artist A Day, November 6, 2011
• “Midwestern Voices and Visions” – Alliance of Artists Communities, Fall 2011
• “Anorak Hero – Willy Chyr” – Anorak Vol. 17, Winter 2010
• “Willy Chyr” – It’s Nice That issue #4, October, 2010
• “Big Omaha: From animals to installations, balloon artist Willy Chyr” by Danny Schreiber – Silicon Prairie News, June 3, 2010
• “Meet Mr. Balloon Artist” – Televised Featured on WGN-TV’s Chicago Best, May 19, 2010
• “Willy Chyr – Artista de los Globos y la Luz” by Mari Carmen Nuño – ELLE (Mexico), June 2010
• “Willy Chyr: Balloon Sculptor” by Anna Pesquidous – Platform, April 30, 2010
• “Evolution in the Balloon Animal Kingdom” by Kyle VanHemert – Gizmodo, March 20, 2010
• “Willy Chyr” by Will Hudson – It’s Nice That, March 18, 2010
• “Balloon Artist” – Televised Feature on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight, August 11, 2009
• “Arts Extravaganza” by Lloyd DeGrane – The University of Chicago Magazine, July-Aug 2009
• “Fourth-year student takes balloon art to a higher level” by Susie Allen – University of Chicago Homepage Feature, June 2009
• “Fourth-year installs balloon sculpture in BSLC” by Stacey Kirkpatrick – The Chicago Maroon, June 2, 2009
• “Fota Op” by Anthony Ruth – The Core: College Magazine of the University of Chicago, Spring/Summer 2009