Advanced Fighting Fantasy By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 12th, 2022 First a gamebook series, then a fully-fledged RPG!
Interlinked The Prince of Hades Laughs with a Mouthful of Blood By Phoenix Simms • December 8th, 2022 Zagreus is definitely a liminal figure trapped in a purgatorial space – and this metaphor extends to the entire setting of Hades.
Collision Detection Better Living, Better Writing By Ben Sailer • December 7th, 2022 Bad Writer shows how becoming a more interesting writer starts with living a more interesting life and there’s nothing interesting about joyless overwork.
Insert Coin Imperfect Escapes By Madison Butler • December 6th, 2022 An investigation into the story, gameplay and relentless advertisements of Magic Tavern’s Project Makeover.
Here Be Monsters Limited Inventory and Staggered Saves By Emma Kostopolus • December 5th, 2022 The rhetoric of classic survival horror.
This Mortal Coyle On Organizing My Skyrim Library and Living in a Human Body By Deirdre Coyle • December 2nd, 2022 Organizing books makes me not care that I’m a decaying meat-coated skeleton living by the light of a dying star. I love skeletons! I love stars! Who cares, just let me read!
The Joys of Getting Lost in the Myst By Jay Norton • December 1st, 2022 I felt as if I was ready to tear my way through the rest of Myst and prove that I didn’t need a walkthrough. That’s not exactly what happened.
I Played It, Like, Twice... Versus Mode: Myth x Bardsung By Orrin Grey • November 30th, 2022 Both Bardsung and Myth are dungeon-crawl games at the high end of the complexity scale, but that’s where the surface similarities end.
