by Brian | May 2, 2016 | Game Tea Time, Noirlandia
How do mysteries work in games – RPGs, board games, and video games alike? And how do these different types of games use their mediums to explore and eventually answer mysteries? Does the game have to know the answer to the mystery, or can the game leave that up...
by Brian | Feb 15, 2016 | Politics and Gaming
No matter what anyone tells you, games are never really apolitical. Because, well, they’re not created or played in a vacuum, isolated from everything and everyone else. We live in a highly political world. By that, I don’t mean Democrats vs. Republicans. I mean a...
by Hannah | Mar 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’ve been getting all worked up about the state of this planet. A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (and if we’ve already forgotten, here’s another), nuclear fallout in Japan, a party-line vote to defund NPR, more proposed defunding for...
by Hannah | Mar 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Is that someone will always outdo you. I’m still finishing the porch on my sandstone beachside ranch house, and someone in Iowa has just created a Minecraft lovebot that massages your toes while singing you to sleep at night. Really, I’m sure it’s...
by Hannah | Dec 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’ve been debating about whether to release this game in pieces, or to crap it out in one chunk. It’s short n’ sweet, so there’s no good reason to release it in installments. I’m just thinking about accountability. The sooner a piece goes...