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Tag Archives: video games
You Buy It I Play It: Revelations 2012
This video is part of my series where I will play anything that you buy for me. I’ve started branching out into “video content” for games that seem like they would be better for showing and talking than writing, and … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games, You Buy It I Write It
Tagged left 4 dead, revelations 2012, video games, you buy it I write it
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Review of Arkham Knight at Paste
About halfway through my time with the game, I quipped on Twitter that Arkham Knight has some of the best comic book writing in the sense that the writing is terrible, and while I’m not sure I think that’s exactly … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged batman, batman: arkham knight, review, video games
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A Critical Look At Homefront
Today I released the video I’ve been working on on-and-off for the past few weeks. It’s a critical look at Homefront, a game I generally think is much more interesting than most people tend to give it credit for. The video … Continue reading
Heroes of the Storm SUPERCUT
Last night I posted a “supercut” video of a long stream of Heroes of the Storm that I hosted the other night. It’s a bunch of my friends from my World of Warcraft days and before, and I’ve included our fun wins and our … Continue reading
Posted in Video, Video Games
Tagged blizzard, heroes of the storm, supercut, video, video games
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Epanalepsis Out Today!
After a very long and weird journey that has destroyed both my mind and my body, I have released Epanalepsis. It is a short narrative game that’s sort of cyberpunky and sort of Literary Brat Pack and generally just a weird … Continue reading
Posted in A Game I Made, Video Games
Tagged a game i made, adventure games, epanalepsis, john fio, video games
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Thimbleweed Park and Sketching
Gary Winnick has a new post up on the Thimbleweek Park development blog about quick sketching and visual design for a game. I’ve never thought about quick iteration as something at the forefront of my game development method, but I really have … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged epanalepsis, sketching, thimbleweed park, video games
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Crocotile 3D: A Tilemap Editor In 3D
Just wanted to make a quick post about Crocotile 3D, a program I noticed on Twitter the other day. It seems like a really interesting system for creating 3D spaces out of 2D tilesets. Alex Hanson-White is the developer and … Continue reading
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Tagged alex hanson-white, crocotile 3d, video games
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Martin on the Cinephile as War Machine
There is no essential form or content to cinephilia, but maybe there is something like an essential cinephile process or gesture. Let me put it this way: cinephilia is a war machine; a tactical, cultural war machine. Always a different … Continue reading
On Heart of the Swarm
Yesterday I closed out my writing for the end of the semester and decided to attempt to finish up Heart of the Swarm. Heart, or HOTS as it is sometimes known, is the Zerg (read: space bugs) campaign follow-up to the Terran … Continue reading
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Tagged heart of the swarm, starcraft II, video games
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