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Category Archives: Video Games
Released: Vomit Bear
This past week I was attempting to recover from two months of crunch on Epanalepsis (it’s coming along great), and I made a small game called Vomit Bear. I made some mouth sounds music and enlisted the help of a lot of … Continue reading
SMK Speedruns Psychonauts
A great video across the board.
Posted in Video Games
Tagged psychonauts, speedruns, video games
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Austin Walker and Ian Williams on Funk of Titans
There’s a temptation to say that popular interpretations of blaxploitation has even lost their racialized content, but there’s often a toothless trace. In Funk of Titans, after players beat a set of levels they face off in a rhythm-game dance … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged austin walker, blaxsploitation, funk of titans, ian williams, race
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On Video Games, Content, and Expression
Frank Lantz recently wrote a post at Gamasutra about formalism. It is fundamentally about the stakes of formalism, what self-described formalists do and do not do, and how he sees the current world of video games. The much-quoted paragraph … Continue reading
Posted in Theory, Video Games
Tagged content and expression, deleuze and guattari, form and content, frank lantz
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On Cursor*10
There’s something about time travel and paving a way for yourself that’s incredibly intriguing. There’s this idea that time travel could, maybe, allow you to go back in time and make your life better in some measurable way. Alternately, you’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged cursor*10, philip k. dick, robert heinlein, super time force ultra, video games, yoshio ishii
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Kissing and Tugging in Middle Earth
In Shadow of Mordor you take control of Powerful Manfoot, a stealthy stabman. In the much-lambasted tutorial of the game, you sneak up on your wife and give her a big smooch as your tutorial to a system that will be used … Continue reading
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Tagged shadows over mordor, the hobbit, the lord of the rings, video games
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On Spiral Wings
I’m sort of shocked by how wonderful Spiral Wings is from the perspective of a tight storytelling experience. It is very Dark Souls in its approach to the world–there’s something fantastic here, something pseudomedieval, something strange–a figure lies dead at the bottom of a … Continue reading
On Jim’s Grim Story
The blurb for Jim’s Grim Story tells it all: Jim’s Grim Story is a topdown psychological pet collection game by Daedalus Games. The player controls Jim, a misunderstood child in Abbey, a small town just south of the big city. Jim feels … Continue reading
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Tagged gamejolt, jim's grim story, my father's long long legs, silent hill, spec ops, videogames, you were hallucinating the whole time
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Zoya Street on Virtual Pets
In contrast, a virtual pet such as a tamagotchi requires emotional labour of a sort. The skill required has nothing to do with your physical ability to manipulate the keys of the device, but rather is concerned with your ability … Continue reading
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Tagged ethics, jenn frank, video games, virtual pets, zoya street
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this cage is worms 