Friction Burns Surveillance Paranoia Where You Most and Least Expect It By Ruth Cassidy • April 25th, 2024 When Life Eater takes away access, you realize just what you were getting from it.
Friction Burns (Sometimes) Literally Unwinnable By Ruth Cassidy • March 29th, 2024 It would be easy for Mosa Lina to feel like an opponent to conquer, but instead it feels like we’re on the same team.
Friction Burns The Surprising Horrors of Frictionless Romance By Ruth Cassidy • February 26th, 2024 If I want to enjoy romances in RPGs, it seems against my best interests to want it to be more likely that I am rejected – and yet…
Friction Burns Returning to Rhythm in A Highland Song By Ruth Cassidy • February 7th, 2024 There’s a lot to learn from falling down mountains.
Friction Burns Never to Return By Ruth Cassidy • November 15th, 2023 It feels like knowing Pyre’s secrets should remove its surface tensions, but a risk you know how to calculate just makes the gambles feel larger.
Friction Burns Press Restart for Planet Earth By Ruth Cassidy • April 7th, 2023 Terra Nil offers a similar kind of escapist fantasy to other city builders – just from another angle.
Friction Burns The Writer Will Do Criticism By Ruth Cassidy • March 9th, 2023 The friction between knowing how games are made, and knowing that I don’t know how any one game is made.
Friction Burns When Dwarves Won’t Do What You Want Them To By Ruth Cassidy • February 7th, 2023 Friction is FUN.
Friction Burns Power Without Control In Pentiment By Ruth Cassidy • December 21st, 2022 Pentiment is a game about the changing balance of social power, and this uncomfortable dinner sets the stage for how even words are catalysts of change.
Friction Burns Against the Storm, Against Randomness, Against the Inevitable By Ruth Cassidy • November 29th, 2022 An exploration of the tensions you play with, vs the tensions the game’s text shows you. It isn’t enough to survive against all odds – for the purpose of your task list, that’s simply assumed.
