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Author: Levi Rubeck

Casting Deep Meteo
The record for The Body and BIG|BRAVE's Leaving None but Small Birds, accompanied by its insert. The album art features a geometric orange and white house on green grass against a deep blue sky. The insert lists all of the album's track names within a minimalistic sketch of a house.

Swaying from Seed to Stalk with The Body and BIG|BRAVE

By Levi Rubeck • October 12th, 2021

Coming together, The Body and BIG|BRAVE tear down their own houses to build back from their shared beams.

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A screenshot of the game American Truck Simulator showing a Truck riding down a California highway with a hot rod in the opposite direction. In the distance, in the form of a "hollywood sign" you can see "World of Trucks."

American Truck Simulator: Wyoming in Miniature

By Levi Rubeck • September 28th, 2021

I’m in this convoy for the vistas, the big hauls, the roadside magic, even if it must refrain from truly mimicking the vastness of the time spent cruising those roads in real life.

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two characters fighting a skeleton monster on a lit ledge.

Greak and the Deft Power of Short Stories

By Levi Rubeck • September 21st, 2021

Greak doesn’t overstay its welcome, and is clearsighted in its goals from the beginning.

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Two images - one of a character running into a forest, from the game Below, merged with an image of ASCII art from the game Caves of Qud.

The Mental Umami of Risk and Reward

By Levi Rubeck • September 14th, 2021

Though Below has killed me almost as often as Caves of Qud, each defeat similarly instructs enough to encourage another descent.

Revving the Engine

Watching, Watching, Watching

By Levi Rubeck • July 29th, 2021

I see you.

Casting Deep Meteo
centered, the bald head of Agent 47 holding a handgun in a gloved fist, surrounded by images of himself doing other rad action-movie like things.

The Play About the Scottish Hitman

By Levi Rubeck • May 11th, 2021

Hitman (2016) is a game that conjures this spirit of the theater and allows me to flow through that liminal space of being directed while remaining free to wander the stage at my whim.

The two band members of 68 in a red stylized image, overlapping. This is a section of their album cover for Give One Take One

’68 Releases a Menu Worthy of the Meal

By Levi Rubeck • April 13th, 2021

This wasn’t a boast but a call-to-arms, and there are many who took on the charge.

Detail from the cover art for We are Always Alone of a girl in a schoolgirl outfit, a purple and red light above her head.

portrayal of guilt’s Anthems Against False Hope

By Levi Rubeck • April 5th, 2021

Anthems for sinking ships, as if the tide itself was a choleric spirit drawing you down to a lightless ocean floor.

Casting Deep Meteo
a screenshot from everspace 2

The Lust of Early Access: Everspace 2 and 30XX

By Levi Rubeck • February 11th, 2021

Everspace 2 fulfills a similar desire to expand upon the past, in this case, more Star Fox vibrations.

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El Hijo, the Solid Snake of Tag

By Levi Rubeck • February 4th, 2021

In stealth games, I always aspire to be the ghost.

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