Learning Dwarf Fortress
For my first few posts, I’d like to write a few short articles about the mega-indie city-sim Dwarf Fortress. My gaming interests lie particularly in indie PC games, and I feel that Dwarf Fortress...
View ArticleHammerfight is like Omar Sharif
ATTENTION. I AM MANLY OMAR. Or the game Omar Sharif would play. Let’s talk about it. Like Sharif, Hammerfight is outrageously manly. Derek Yu wrote about the game’s manliness, and it was his assessment...
View ArticleGalcon Fusion is good times, some of the time
The gulf between multiplayer and singleplayer Galcon is like the gulf between an adorable puppy and a dead puppy that is already rotting. Actually, that’s very unfair. But there is a huge divide. In my...
View ArticleCAGE MATCH: PART TWO: Indigo Retrospective*
I haven’t played Heavy Rain, as I don’t own a PS3, but I have played the hell out of Indigo Prophecy, David Cage’s prior attempt at the interactive-story genre. When I picked it up, I’d just returned...
View ArticlePAX Indie Showcase
Nestled in the center of PAX East’s enormous expo floor, between AAA game demos and hardware booths, were two low rows of tables crowded with widescreen monitors and laptops. This was the Boston Indie...
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