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You watch Long Plays to experience a game without playing it
You watch Let’s Plays to be entertained
You watch video reviews to be spoiled
Thesis: None of these three things are particularly conducive to actually selling a product.
Author Archives: Martyn Zachary
On the Rise of Youtube
14/10/2014 - 16:45
The Samaritan Paradox Review
25/07/2014 - 12:22
The Samaritan Paradox, a relatively new commercial AGS adventure game by Faravid Interactive’s Peter Ljunkvist, published by Screen 7, is a story about a story. A refreshingly Swedish one, too. The game’s protagonist, Ord Salomon - ‘ord’ is Swedish for ‘word’ - is a shut-in PhD student of literature, rotting away at a failing thesis, …
Full Mojo Rampage Review
14/07/2014 - 19:12
Over the Top Games’ new roguelike-lite, Full Mojo Rampage, is quite the voodoo soup, one that has been slowly bubbling away in Steam’s dangerous “Early Access” section since late 2013. The game, having finally reached its boiling point in May 2014, is now out, and we are about to find out just how tasty this …
Gone Home and The Reality Effect
13/03/2014 - 14:49
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 …
Shipwreck Review
09/03/2014 - 12:22
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! …