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What I Saw at PAX East 2013: Female Protagonists!
At PAX East 2012, the only game I played with a female character was Borderlands 2. I did play a couple of games with a first-person POV with no emphasis on gender, but I encountered a serious lack of female … Continue reading
Posted in Console Games, General Gaming, Indie Games, Mobile Games, PC Games
Tagged capcom, Charlie Murder, Compulsion Games, Contrast, Divekick, dontnod entertainment, female protagonists, Giant Spacekat, Iron Galaxy Studios, Journal, Lords of New York, Lunchtime Studios, Melissa Royall, PAX East 2013, remember me, Revolution 60, richard perrin, Ska Studios, Spooky Squid Games, supergiant games, They Bleed Pixels, transistor
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A Conversation with Shawn Trautman, Creator of Cherry Creek
Note: This article contains details of Cherry Creek; the game is short, and you can play it here. Over the past year, some game designers have created games with the focus on personal stories (dys4ia and Lim) and on ordinary … Continue reading
Posted in Indie Games, PC Games
Tagged Cherry Creek, indie games, Shawn Trautman, twine
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Kickstart This – Delver’s Drop
At PAX Prime 2012, I played a short demo of Delver’s Drop. At that time, the demo was a few rooms of a dungeon, but I was impressed with the fluid movement and physics-based interactions between the character and the … Continue reading
Posted in General Gaming, Indie Games, PC Games
Tagged Delver's Drop, kickstarter, Pixelscopic
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Long Live the Queen – Review (PC)
When I was younger, many of the stories I was told were about princesses. According to those stories, princesses needed rescuing, attended lavish balls wearing elegant dresses, and had to get the guy in order to live happily ever after. … Continue reading
Posted in Indie Games, PC Games
Tagged Hanako Games, Long Live the Queen, Review, Spiky Caterpillar
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Blaming [INSERT CHOICE OF ENTERTAINMENT HERE] Solves Nothing
After the horrific events in Newtown, Connecticut, politicians, the NRA, and others started pointing fingers at the violence in entertainment, especially video games. We have to accept that we do live in a violent culture, and we can’t deny that … Continue reading