Interlinked What We Make From the Ruins By Phoenix Simms • March 8th, 2023 Phoenix chats with the lead game narrative designer of The Archipelago about writing a game that explores both the political and personal.
Interlinked The Triple Goddess Effect By Phoenix Simms • February 2nd, 2023 Like Hades protagonist Zagreus, Melinoë is also connected to an Orphic hymn, this time one that sings of her as a “saffron veil’d” nymph that inspires both night terrors and madness in people.
Interlinked Gremlin Girl Energy By Phoenix Simms • January 5th, 2023 Greta is both a problem and a potential solution to that problem, but when read under a more feminist-revisionist lens, she’s charmingly camp, she’s a 90s icon and she’s absolutely that bitch.
Exploits Feature Unpacking By Krista McCay • January 2nd, 2023 Objects they keep, objects they part with…
Brain Scratch Lonely Heart of the Cards Club By Steven Nguyen Scaife • December 14th, 2022 The one Lord apparently has better things to do than stop the scavenger hunt for a forbidden trading card collection.
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.
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.
Revving the Engine Breaking Away From the Fold By Justin Reeve • November 23rd, 2022 A Tale of Paper: Refolded poses a number of interesting questions including the extent to which our most deeply held hopes and ambitions can impact the people around us.
Feature Story What Creates Class In The Internet Age? By Ciaran Doran • November 22nd, 2022 Worldwide internet penetration is only hovering at around 50%. That means that every other person worldwide has no independent chance to read this article.
