My second post looking into Interactive Fiction is up on PopMatters. This time I look at two works that move away from the text adventure lineage and start pushing what can be done with text and a parser. This paragraph got cut from the posted version – probably rightly so …
Finally I’m back to talking about games. For the first week of May I decided to critique two modern text adventures and look at the interesting things they do. Instead of jumping in to the next big thing or tackling my backlog of AAA titles, and boy I have a …
And so I finally finish my three part series on PAX East. Part the First, Part the Second and Part the Last. It’s not so much about this PAX East, but using this PAX East as an attempt to explain all PAX Easts, maybe all PAXs, but I haven’t been …
Episode 12 of the CDC podcast went live. I know it was promised back in March, but it was delayed due to the hell that misbegotten excuse for an audio file put me through. I had to edit the thing three times. Originally I had planned to release it last …
I had a post here. 1200 words of what I thought at least were some interesting ideas and for once decently written. WordPress said screw you and erased them from existence when I saved them. All that’s left is the title above, the tags at the bottom and my anger …
And so comes to an end of a month looking at walking games with jaunt over to the Third-Person Walkers of last year Journey and Bientôt l’été. The whole idea of the first person walking genre was from Kris Ligman or at least I thought it did until I tried …
I’ve finally finished up my series on the First Person Walkers of 2012. Ending on the last of the three that I played and the one I honestly had the hardest time writing about: Proteus. I don’t know if it’s the fact I don’t play that many open world games …
I appeared on another episode of the Moving Pixels Podcast to discuss the indie game Little Inferno. I don’t know what to really think of the game and spend most of my time trying to parse it out in real time with my fellow podcasters. It’s another game I’m very …
This is a week late and a good example of why you should have your posts written out ahead of time. I like Thirty Flights of Loving as a mental experiment more than I like it as a game. As a game there just isn’t enough for me to grab …
This column wasn’t the one I had planned to write this week. In fact, I hadn’t played the game until this past weekend. I wanted to get the outstanding reviews out of the way, so I focused all my energy on playing them. I played The Path last. I try …