Category: Videogames
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My Favorite Games: The Sims 2
Memories of the game series that taught me about abstractions, and about how profitable video games can be (for other people)
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Bandersnatch and Possibility Spaces
More like an extended-length episode of Black Mirror than an interactive movie, Bandersnatch reveals (probably intentionally?) most of the problems with interactive fiction.
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My Favorite Games: SimCity 3000
You can’t cut back on nostalgia for the SimCity series! You will regret this!
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My Favorite Games: Final Fantasy Tactics
Possibly my favorite video game of all time, and one that’s apparently impossible to recreate
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My Favorite Games: What Remains of Edith Finch
An ongoing list of my favorite games, starting with an astounding, metaphor-filled, exploration game by Giant Sparrow
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Friday’s All Right for Even More Crankin’
Friday link post featuring Panic! at the Bluetooth Speaker
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Friday Night’s All Right For Crankin’
A pre-update for a new videogame console! A maybe-BDSM-cult-driven series of computer games! A new land at Disneyland!
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Hooray for Niche Audiences, or, We Made it Weird
Modernizing adventure games, the potential lifespan of interactive media, and what it means to be a “niche audience” in the 21st century
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Habitat and the MADE
I learned from a video from NoClip the disappointing (but not surprising, unfortunately) news that the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment here has had to leave its building in Oakland. They’re looking for donations, and have started a Patreon, to find a new home post-COVID. The thing that stood out in that video was…