Another free game on Steam. Another 10 minute experience. Unlike Dr. Langkeskov, The Static Speaks My Name is not so funny. Part horror, part…weirdness. It is incredibly difficult to describe, so here are the author’s words: My intention was to create an experience with an emphasis on story, character and emotion, not gameplay. Kind of […]
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and the Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist: A Review, a Critique, and a Horribly Wonderful 20 Minutes: Some Words on a Web Page
Posted on December 6, 2015 Leave a Comment
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and the Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist (Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and the Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist for short) is a completely free, 20 minute game featuring comedian Simon Anstell (Nevermind the Buzzcocks) and made by William Pugh, co-creator of The Stanley Parable, and his new studio CrowsCrowsCrows. You […]
A Bird Story: A Review
Posted on November 29, 2015 Leave a Comment
Most games (and books and movies and so on) deliver their narrative in a linear progression, but there are plenty of works that go about it in a roundabout way. Sometimes, they let the viewer decide what really happened, sometimes they present events out of order, sometimes they use a lot of metaphors to convey […]
Emily Is Away: Revisiting AOL Instant Messenger
Posted on November 21, 2015 Leave a Comment
Spending my teenage years in the country side meant I spent a lot of time when I was in high school on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). For me, it was the age of internet friends and online chat drama between school mates. For me and most of my friends, AIM was the way we kept […]
The Beginner’s Guide: A Not Review
Posted on November 6, 2015 Leave a Comment
The Beginner’s Guide is a very personal game and playing it made me feel like I was reading someone’s secret diary. Later, when you find out more about what happened between Davey and Coda, the guilt grows and it unease starts to set in. I shouldn’t be playing this. But of course, you have to […]
