Gone Home and The Reality Effect
Gone Home.
Gone Home. This was The Fullbright Company’s famed “Story Exploration Video Game,”1 a game that I had been aching to witness, to dissect, and to analyse.
This, I already knew, were a Critic’s Kinda Game - one that would absolutely speak both to my ludological and narratological interests… only, the increasingly massive amount of criticism …
By Martyn Zachary
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Posted in Featured, Reviews, Rogue Solutions
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Tagged Adrian Chmielarz, Alec Meer, Dan Bruno, Dear Esther, Gone Home, Narratology, Steam Tags, Steve Gaynor, The Fullbright Company, What Is Game?
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Shipwreck Review
I recently stumbled upon a really good video game trailer:
The above video, then, is a launch trailer for Brushfire Games’ new indie game Shipwreck. It is as WYSIWYG as you get! In buying this new game, you get the following:
Neat and tidy pixel graphics
Atmospheric console-style ‘retro’ music
Well-balanced, honed gameplay
Fun mechanics and a good difficulty curve
Zelda! …
By Martyn Zachary
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Posted in Featured, Indie, Reviews
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Tagged Anodyne, Bushfire Games, Gameboy Color, Humble Store, Jeremy Parish, Nintendo, Postmodernity, Shipwreck, Steam Greenlight, Zelda
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Payday 2, “Death Wish,” and Binary States
Over here at The Slowdown, I like and try to produce criticism on things that I enjoy, and things that I think are good. This is often (cough, preposterously) visible on the website. This doesn’t mean, however, that I don’t just “play” games, too.
One of these games is Payday 2, the sequel to 2011’s Payday: …
Alert, alert! @EdmundMcMillenn has recently opened up a new Tumblr dev blog for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
That ends the newsworthy portion of this post; certainly, the opening of the Tumblr is major news to any and all Isaac buffs (like myself! I am your Golden God!), as McMillen has promised a weekly stream of …