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Memescape

Choose Your Own Twitter Thread

By Alyse Stanley • August 6th, 2019

A.K.A. when Twitter role-played as Beyonce’s assistant.

Memscape

The History of Twitter’s Little Bunnies

By Alyse Stanley • January 9th, 2019

Twitter’s ushering in a new age of Ascii art, whether its users know it or not.

Ludum Dare 43 Makes Sacrifices in the Best Way

By Alyse Stanley • December 17th, 2018

So many good games made in just 48 hours.

E-soterica

Adorable Point-and-Click Games, Rise!

By Alyse Stanley • December 12th, 2018

The media would have you think this genre is dead. But they haven’t played A Frog Detective or Nairi.

Memescape

We Are All Gritty

By Alyse Stanley • December 5th, 2018

Gritty: An obsession; a movement; a cult. Ultimately, though, he’s a googly-eyed reflection of this tumultuous time.

E-soterica
A screenshot from Yet Another Exhausting Day

Indie Games for the Overworked and Underslept

By Alyse Stanley • November 28th, 2018

Sleeping is for the weak. Play these indie games instead.

E-soterica

A Visual Novel To Scare You Sleepless

By Alyse Stanley • October 31st, 2018

It may be a classic, but Alyse still champions the uncle who works for nintendo as one of the scariest indie games out there.

E-soterica

Sokpop’s World In Miniature

By Alyse Stanley • October 17th, 2018

Terrariums let you play god with none of the responsibilities. The Sokpop Collective’s Simmiland lets you do it in real time.

E-soterica

My Brother Rabbit Tackles Seriousness with Surrealism

By Alyse Stanley • October 3rd, 2018

Under the guise of a point-and-click puzzle game, My Brother Rabbit shows the helplessness and horror of battling illness at a young age.

The Harmful Misconceptions Behind We Happy Few

By Alyse Stanley • September 25th, 2018

Compulsion Games’ recent release rebukes psychiatric drugs in its attempt to build a commentary around them.

E-soterica

Bork in the U.S.S.R.

By Alyse Stanley • September 12th, 2018

Russian Subway Dogs brings arcade mania and hecking good boys to the Motherland’s underground.

E-soterica

Finding Peace Where I Can Get It

By Alyse Stanley • August 2nd, 2018

These indie puzzle games have particularly calmed my mind, providing a soothing digital sojourn in this whirlwind news climate.

E-soterica

In Space Everyone Knows You’re Gay

By Alyse Stanley • August 1st, 2018

During an interstellar war for humanity’s future, three women find themselves inexplicably drawn toward one another. It’s destiny. Or maybe just physics.

E-soterica
The title card for Perfectly Ordinary Ghosts, a piece of Gothic interactive fiction.

The Domestic Horror of Perfectly Ordinary Ghosts

By Alyse Stanley • June 28th, 2018

Perfectly Ordinary Ghosts details the horrors hidden just out of sight in the most sacred of places: our quaint suburban homes.

E-soterica

Fans Have Spoken, and They Want a Knuckle Sandwich

By Alyse Stanley • May 4th, 2018

When the frenetic gameplay of WarioWare, the dark humor of Fargo, and the aesthetic of Dragon Ball and Pokémon combine, Knuckle Sandwich emerges unscathed from the explosion, sunglasses lowered.

E -soterica

Rythm is Lava

By Alyse Stanley • April 25th, 2018

Egor Dorichev’s entry Rythm is Lava (typo intentional) stitches together RPG, puzzle, platformer, and rhythm game elements Frankenstein style into an experience as elegant as it is frustratingly complex.

E-soterica

Retribution Never Felt So Punk

By Alyse Stanley • April 10th, 2018

“It’s by girls for girls, expressing shared experience without context,” said Friedoff.

Because of this familiarity, the duo’s motivations in Lost Wage Rampage don’t need extended citations to prove their merit.

E-soterica
A ghoulish figure with a gaping mouth and skeleton fingers resting on a table, a speech bubble standing empty next to its gaping maw. The background is in a gentle shade of yellow.

Speed Dating for Ghosts: A New Lease on Death

By Alyse Stanley • February 22nd, 2018

Speed Dating for Ghosts proves that even the afterlife can get boring if you don’t have someone to share it with.

A text message conversation. From the other person reads "I could be in Europe tomorrow" and a response that reads "You could also be dead tomorrow"

Digital Voyeurism – A Familiar, if Strange Game

By Alyse Stanley • January 15th, 2018

We’ve come to regard phones as such intimate extensions of ourselves. That’s why taking the helm of another’s device is at once instantly familiar and strange.

Smiling, actor Terry Crews looks to the left.

Terry Crews, Silence Breaker

By Alyse Stanley • December 15th, 2017

When the Time Magazine Silence Breakers cover was revealed, I was shocked by the person I didn’t see: Terry Crews.

A purple haired creature with large ears, glitched out over a black text box that reads: "Now I don't really know what to think here. I feel like I just want to grab her and hug her and tell her everything is going to be okay and she can stay here for as long as she wants. But nothing can be that simple, right? What if we don't get on well together? What if her parents somehow find otu she's here and come yell at me? I'd defend Pisti, but it'd be so sterssful"

Yuri Game Jam Inspires Some Queer Tales

By Alyse Stanley • November 10th, 2017

Developers were given two months (September 1 through October 31) to complete their games this year. Entries ran the gambit from walking simulators to shooters to rhythm games.

A meat grinder surrounded by hoverboards and ground meat. tHis is a still from the game Nour.

Nour: Food Art Made Playable

By Alyse Stanley • October 16th, 2017

Nour’s style mimics these Instagramable color motifs in many ways with its sugary soft pastel palette and stark visuals.

Four diverse teenagers against a blue purple background. This is a still from the game Butterfly Soup.

LGBT Stories Come in More Shades than White

By Alyse Stanley • October 3rd, 2017

But with all these new queer video game characters flooding in, few have stopped to ask a very important question: Why are almost all of them white?

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