Dennis Scimeca, Author at Unwinnable

I’m Not A Bit

Dennis Scimeca — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:58:40 +0000

Lizzie danced around with a zombie, on the front lawn of the house where she, her sister Mika, and the two adults they were traveling with, Carol and Tyreese, had taken shelter. Carol was making tea in the kitchen, enjoying the luxury of clean water pumped out of a nearby well and a functioning gas stove. When Carol looked out the window and saw Lizzie laughing and twirling as the zombie growled and made desperate swipes at the little girl, Carol dashed outside, knife in hand. “Get away from it!” she yelled. “Right now, Lizzie!” “No, no, no!” Lizzie screamed

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Creating a Playground of Wonder

Dennis Scimeca — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 08:57:58 +0000

Scale is the freshest take on first-person perspective games I’ve seen since the original Portal. It is being developed by Steve Swink, who describes himself as a game designer first and foremost, but who also teaches game and level design, including master classes at NYU, and has published a book titled Game Feel: A Game Designer’s Guide to Virtual Sensation. Scale is a puzzle game that allows players to scale objects up or down within the constraints of conservation of mass. If a puzzle’s solution requires walking through a hole in the wall and the hole is too small, for

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I’m not Afraid of Zombies, I’m Afraid of Us

Dennis Scimeca — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 06:14:06 +0000

In last week’s episode of The Walking Dead, a zombie ripped someone’s throat out and then that guy got up and ripped someone’s stomach open and before you know it a bunch of zombies were attacking a bunch of people until the humans came in and busted the zombies’ heads open with pipes and knives and I thought “Meh, that doesn’t seem that bad.” I’d worry more about that reaction if I was one of the 5% of the audience who reliably raises their hand when Max Brooks, the author of World War Z, asks who is looking forward to

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