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Category Archives: Mobile Games
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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Game of the Day: Dominique Pamplemousse in “It’s All Over Once the Fat Lady Sings!” by Deirdra Kiai
Happy Dominique Pamplemousse day! Deirdra’s newest game, a claymation musical adventure, is now available for iPad and Windows/Mac. You can buy it here or on the app store. Feel free to discuss the game in the comments!
Posted in Indie Games, Mobile Games, PC Games
Tagged claymation, Deirdra Kiai, dominique pamplemousse, game of the day, musical
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Review: Furdiburb takes virtual pet simulators to the next level
Dolls. Tamagotchi. The Sims. A significant portion of our play constitutes what some would call “work:” the labor-intensive process of caring for and nurturing another virtually or figuratively ‘living’ thing. Furdiburb is a game that takes that basic care-for-something mechanic, … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Games
Tagged Android, gender presentation, gendered play, mobile games
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You Want To Make a Boyfriend – You Just Don’t Know it Yet
There is an app taking the world by storm. It’s hot in Japan, it’s free, it’s Boyfriend Maker. Indeed, this is an unusual game to talk about on The Border House, because it does play up and exploit heteronormative stereotypes … Continue reading
A Small Aside from the NY Games Conference 2012
The following is a guest post from Jillian Schaar: Jillian Scharr is a recent graduate of Vassar College and a lifelong daydreamer. She floats between jobs and cafes in the greater NYC area, writing about videogames and computers and fictional … Continue reading
Posted in Casual Games, General Gaming, Mobile Games
Tagged conventions, ny games conference, sexism, women
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Horn review: A mobile game just shy of greatness
The following is a guest post from Jillian Schaar: Jillian Scharr is a recent graduate of Vassar College and a lifelong daydreamer. She floats between jobs and cafes in the greater NYC area, writing about videogames and computers and fictional … Continue reading
MOM is Watching: A new kind of dystopia
The following is a guest post from Jillian Scharr: Jillian Scharr is a recent graduate of Vassar College and a lifelong daydreamer. She floats between jobs and cafes in the greater NYC area, writing about videogames and computers and fictional … Continue reading
How to be transphobic, the Alpha Colony Kickstarter way
Danielle Bunten Berry was one of the more influential video gaming pioneers in our industry. The designer and programmer was known for her work on titles that were always ahead of their time, such as M.U.L.E., The Seven Cities of … Continue reading
Posted in General Gaming, Mobile Games, PC Games
Tagged alpha colony, dani bunten, dreamquest, kickstarter, m.u.l.e., transphobia
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Wind-up Knight: An entertaining iOS game with questionable elements
While confronted with a few plane trips and long delays at the airport a couple of weeks ago, I browsed the App Store and downloaded a game for my iPad. Wind-up Knight is an “endless runner” style iOS game … Continue reading
Posted in Casual Games, Mobile Games
Tagged misogyny, rape culture, robot invader, sexism, wind-up knight
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Lume Debuts for iOS
A little while ago I did a casual review about this game called Lume. You can check out the review here. It was a fun game made by a bunch of people who, according to Luke Whittaker of State of … Continue reading
Posted in Casual Games, General Gaming, Indie Games, Mobile Games
Tagged casual games, indie games, iOS, Lume
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