Month: September 2016

Eric Swain External Sources

Highbrow, Middle Brow, and Lowbrow in Free-to-Play Gaming

September 27, 2016 | Filed under: External Sources, Recent Posts This week on the Moving Pixels Podcast we do another anthology of 3 small free games. The games this time are A Date in the Park, Mandagon and The Lion’s Song. For this variation on the occasional trip into free game land, we, essentially, each picked a game out … (This post is lost beyond this point.) Moving Pixels Podcast: Highbrow, Middle Brow, and Lowbrow in Free-to-Play Gaming » PopMatters "No need to linger little totem; heed the words we all have spoken! | more

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The Moving Pixels Podcast Explores Act IV of ‘Kentucky Route Zero’

The long-awaited Act IV of Kentucky Route Zero has been released and now so has our discussion about it. It’s a game about being lost. With each new episode KR0 seems to find a new way to express this both thematically and structurally. While Act IV may be the most constrained episode geographically, it also feels like it is also the most expansive with narrative crafting options. It strange coming back to continue a game after letting it lie two years fallow. | more