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Category Archives: Video Games
You Buy It I Write It: Karateka (2012)
This was written as part of my longform project where I play anything someone purchases for me. You can read more about that here. Videogames have strange relationships with time. There’s the time-to-complete, which is a measurement of how long … Continue reading
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Tagged karateka, martial arts, simon parkin, videogames, you buy it I write it
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On Assassin’s Creed: Revelations – The Animus
This essay is in a longform series of posts about the Assassin’s Creed series. It is supported by my Patreon page. 1. The Assassin’s Creed series up to Revelations all follow a pattern of nested interfaces: you are a player controlling Desmond Miles who is strapped … Continue reading
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Tagged assassin's creed, assassin's creed: revelations, ideology, videogames
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On Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood – City
This essay is in a longform series of posts about the Assassin’s Creed series. It is supported by my Patreon page. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is a departure from the previous games in the series in that it takes place almost completely … Continue reading
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Tagged assassin's creed, assassin's creed 2: brotherhood, community, videogames, violence
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On Assassin’s Creed 2 – Interface
This is the third of three essays in a series on Assassin’s Creed 2, which is itself part of a much larger series on the Assassin’s Creed franchise itself. Assassin’s Creed uses the mechanic of blending in order to allow Altair, the assassin of the Holy … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander galloway, assassin's creed, assassin's creed 2, ezio auditore, interface, video games
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On Assassin’s Creed 2 – Conspiracy
This is the second of a few essays in a series on Assassin’s Creed 2, which is itself part of a much larger series on the Assassin’s Creed franchise itself. It isn’t possible to talk about Assassin’s Creed without talking about conspiracies. They’re the life … Continue reading
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Tagged assassin's creed, assassin's creed 2, conspiracy, video games
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Released: Carl, A Dawdling Guest
Hello! This is a game that I made and released a few weeks ago. It has been a Patreon page exclusive for a very long time, but now everyone can play it! Whee! PLAY IT HEEEERE
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Tagged a game i made, carl a dawdling guest, video game
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On Assassin’s Creed 2 – Control
This is the first of a few essays in a series on Assassin’s Creed 2, which is itself part of a much larger series on the Assassin’s Creed franchise itself. Assassin’s Creed 2 invites us to think two ways about control. 1. The Assassin’s … Continue reading
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Tagged assassin's creed, assassin's creed 2, ezio auditore, felan parker, video games
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Intermedio: Assassin’s Creed and Assassin’s Creed 2
This is a short piece in my series of articles on the Assassin’s Creed games in order to talk about some of the shifts that were immediately apparent between Assassin’s Creed and Assassin’s Creed 2. More posts on the second game in the series are going … Continue reading
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On He Never Showed Up
Andi McClure made He Never Showed Up, a game about getting stood up in the rain. 1. This is a game about time. Or, rather, it is about an absence in time, about waiting for a moment that never really comes. … Continue reading
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Support Critical Distance on Patreon
Kris Ligman has recently put up a Patreon page for Critical Distance, and suggest you support it if you like the world of videogame criticism. Kris does an immense amount of work on Critical Distance, and I’m glad that there’s a way … Continue reading
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