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.
Feature Story Whose Body Horror Is It, Anyway? By Ruth Cassidy • October 21st, 2022 A look at body horror, the just world fallacy, and lungs that turn into glass.
Friction Burns Finding The On-Ramp To Route Zero By Ruth Cassidy • September 26th, 2022 Kentucky Route Zero carries its own ghosts of its critical legacy. How do I get past that?
Friction Burns I Was A Teenage Exocolonist: Let’s Do The Time Warp Again(?) By Ruth Cassidy • September 14th, 2022 Consequences matter when you decide, but sometimes death is useful.
Friction Burns There’s Two Sides To The Story in Signs of the Sojourner By Ruth Cassidy • August 29th, 2022 There’s a truth at its heart of Signs of the Sojourner’s conversational card games: you cannot prepare the perfect conversation.
