Friction Burns Shifting Tides and Dynamics in Queer Man Peering Into A Rock Pool.Jpg By Ruth Cassidy • July 29th, 2022 Like the changing tides, and the pitching skies, the perspective in Queer Man Peering Into A Rock Pool.jpg shifts.
Collision Detection Some Thoughts on Independent Games and Media By Ben Sailer • June 29th, 2022 As Unwinnable celebrates its tenth (twelfth) trip around the sun, Ben looks back on the developments and decisions that led him to this point.
Friction Burns Unpacking Vulnerability, Empathy and Player Agency By Ruth Cassidy • December 17th, 2021 It’s that moment when you walk down the street and realise that every single stranger, whose presence is fleeting in your life, has lived an entire history up until that moment.
Friction Burns Authoritarianism (In Frostpunk) Is Not Inevitable By Ruth Cassidy • December 10th, 2021 In that optimisation-first mindset, it’s easy to do – violence will make this problem go away’. But then, so would meeting your citizens’ material needs.
Friction Burns Urgency and Mastery in Umurangi Generation By Ruth Cassidy • October 29th, 2021 While I followed advice to turn off the timer, I kept chewing on its presence. Was it at odds with the game’s purpose, or was I acting in conflict with it?
Friction Burns How Disco Elysium’s Centrist Path Observes the Player By Ruth Cassidy • October 1st, 2021 “It isn’t about diplomacy, or pacifying all sides, but about absolute control.”
Casting Deep Meteo Greak and the Deft Power of Short Stories By Levi Rubeck • September 21st, 2021 Greak doesn’t overstay its welcome, and is clearsighted in its goals from the beginning.
Casting Deep Meteo The Mental Umami of Risk and Reward By Levi Rubeck • September 14th, 2021 Though Below has killed me almost as often as Caves of Qud, each defeat similarly instructs enough to encourage another descent.
Little Nightmares II and the Case of Weak Imagery By Amanda Hudgins • February 15th, 2021 Not every game has to say something with its imagery, but it’s clear that Little Nightmares II wants desperately to be saying something.
Gliding by the Light of The Red Lantern By Levi Rubeck • March 26th, 2020 This upcoming rogue-lite adventure novel has been two years in development, a bit before the annual Alaska race crashed through puppy Twitter, but happy to ride some of those waves nonetheless.
