Feature Excerpt To Be a Bird on an Island By Taylor Hidalgo • September 23rd, 2022 During unsteady times, it’s easy to get caught up in the sadness of uncertainty. Thankfully, there are little animals tromping around an island to remind us that it doesn’t have to be that way.
Feature Excerpt Shark Party By Michael Lee • September 22nd, 2022 The kinds of relationships people form in online spaces can be as meaningful and socially rewarding as physical encounters with human bodies.
Feature Story Blue Keys on a Red Planet By Hilver • September 16th, 2022 The DOOM games show the limits of lifeless worlds as game settings, but it is no coincidence that each time id Software had to reinvent the series for a new generation they returned to Mars.
Exploits Feature The Rehearsal By Yussef Cole • September 1st, 2022 “In trying to control your life, you wind up creating fiction.”
Revving the Engine Creative Constraints in Unbound: Worlds Apart By Ben Sailer • August 29th, 2022 Unbound: Worlds Apart looks like a typical puzzle-platformer. However, thanks to some creative design decisions, it’s much more than that.
Feature Story Team Unwinnable Fireside Chats By David Shimomura • August 26th, 2022 This month, David chats with Unwinnable co-owner and vice publisher, Sara Clemens.
Feature Excerpt The Horror of Finding a Home By Andrei Filote • August 25th, 2022 Path of Exile doesn’t end when the story concludes but when the player’s will to imagine the next character fails.
Feature Excerpt The Chaos Detective By Daryl Li • August 24th, 2022 The Return of the Obra Dinn supports a detective fantasy by casting the player into the role of textual interpreter who seeks to organize the chaos into coherent solution.
Exploits Feature Ape Out and Value By Griffin Shufeldt • July 31st, 2022 The money spent/playtime ratio is no match for this freedom-seeking ape.
Revving the Engine Happy Place By Melissa King • July 28th, 2022 The co-founders of Bluecurse Studios, wife and husband Erisa Liu and Jordan Gonzalez, want to give you a cozy digital getaway – their upcoming game, Snacko.