Time Loops All Over Again
You can’t come out of a loop the same way you went in. At least you’d hope so.
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We regret to inform you…
Sorry I couldn’t care less about whether theygave DOOM Guy tits. I was cryingon the doorframe because my granddad had to lend me 20 quid.
Read More We regret to inform you…Sable (Demo): The Trouble with a Timeless Desert
My one wish for Sable was that it could escape the baggage of its aesthetic tradition. The demo makes me uncertain.
Read More Sable (Demo): The Trouble with a Timeless DesertHiberWorld: in a world of short dreams
A social gaming platform, in the model and dreamstate of a world of dead social gaming platforms
Read More HiberWorld: in a world of short dreamsA Hollowed Out Dream
Experiencing grief in a dream space.
Read More A Hollowed Out Dreama morbid dusk
reflections on designing for reflection in Pol Clarissou’s ‘orchids to dusk’
Read More a morbid duskNo Man’s Sky: Through A Screen, Dully
In Dick’s writing the idea of bleak, desolate planets were the horror that the people in his worlds were trying to escape from, now they are the sandboxes in which we play.
Read More No Man’s Sky: Through A Screen, Dullythe earth is a better person than me: what do you want, player?
I have had Kara Stone’s game the earth is a better person than me on my desktop for about 2 years now. I only played it once, the day before yesterday. Why did it take so long? I do know the answer to that, but it’s not one I like. I was scared. Scared to […]
Read More the earth is a better person than me: what do you want, player?Return of the Obra Dinn: Trash, boring, Orientalist crap
Return of the Obra Dinn really overestimates how much I’m willing to sympathise with a member of the East India Company
Read More Return of the Obra Dinn: Trash, boring, Orientalist crapDestiny 2 is Existentially Terrifying
You raised me from the dead for what?!
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