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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
