What if I told you there is a magical place where you can play videogames not just with a mouse+keyboard or gamepad but with, well, anything? Welcome to the alt.ctrl scene where anything can be used to control a videogame! And what if I told you there is a magical programming language that supports you and your alt.ctrl game from hardware to GUI? Well, you're at a Rust conference so maybe you've guessed it. In this talk we'll take a look at the many shapes of alt.ctrl games and how Rust is the perfect fit for creating them. 🦀 *About Lisa Passing* 🦀 Lisa (https://lislis.de/) is a Berlin-based creative technologist, artist, and researcher. Her main obsessions are playful interactions with computers and creative uses of civic tech and data.