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Wot I Think: Quarries of Scred

This week I've written a proper review of Quarries of Scred (Noble Kale, 2014) for Rock Paper Shotgun. Go have a read. But I'm going to add a little bit more here, a Quarries anecdote from the...

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The First Open World, Part One

This is an appendix to the Where We Came From series.For Mercenary, author Paul Woakes, has created what can only be described as a world simulator. The first release using this technique is sub-titled...

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Vault the Grave

Look, this is going to be a short post as I am still working on resurrecting my PC. The above image from Watch Dogs (Ubisoft Montreal, 2014) snowballed on Twitter this month. Perhaps the one with 2,000...

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When Is It OK To Spoil A Mechanic?

My latest Rock Paper Shotgun piece went up a few hours ago. It contrasts Michael Brough's local multiplayer epic Kompendium with Alexander "droqen" Martin’s Starseed Pilgrim, highlighting how both...

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The Feng Shui of Minecraft

Maybe you've had nightmares like this too. Finding yourself stuck in the middle of an impossible nowhere with no hope of getting back to the safe and familiar. I stared at the unending maw of the...

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The Best Electron Dance Posts of All-Time EVER

This month we're celebrating FIVE YEARS of Electron Dance! Welcome, welcome all. Today I present the most definitive of lists, the one you’ve waited five years for. This is the nine most popular posts...

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The Strange Case of the Roguelike Suicide

Perhaps you’re at home. Perhaps you’re on a train. The location doesn’t really matter. What matters is that you’re enjoying your current favourite rogueish-type-like. You think you’re on top of your...

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The Minecraft Industrial Revolution

A video essay on Minecraft's survival mode. Proteus indulges the fable of the “simple life” where we co-exist peacefully with the ecosystem. It asks me to lose myself in the majesty of nature and its...

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The Unbearable Now: On The Witness

On the theme park island of The Witness, you solve puzzles. Solving puzzles leads to more puzzles. Keep working. Keep digging. Keep solving. Again and again and again. But this process cannot continue...

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One Step Forward, One Step Back

Electron Dance reader Ketchua brought Cradle (Flying Cafe for Semianimals, 2015) to my attention many years ago and something about its look stood out. Its release last year seem to go largely...

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Arithmophobia

Tony Van was the producer in charge of localizing a Japanese RPG called The Story of Thor: Hikari wo Tsugu Mono (Ancient, 1994) for Western audiences, but received a badly translated copy of the story...

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Wot I Think: Recursed

I thought it was about time I wrote something again for Rock Paper Shotgun. Right now you can read my Wot I Think about Portponky's difficult yet brilliant puzzle-platformer, Recursed. I've been...

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The Fallen Price of Indie Games

But collaborations like Sportsfriends are rare. What became the norm was the industrialised bundle, which allows customers to pay for several games at a price of their choosing. This became so...

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Gaze of the Abyss

Manifold Garden Earlier this year I wrote an essay called Art of the Impossible about Fragments of Euclid (Antoine Zanuttini, 2017) and William Chyr’s as-yet unreleased Manifold Garden. In classic...

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Go the Distance

I am a skillful operator in the field of self-deception. I said I was going to give my mobile gaming a rest. I needed to do other things on my daily commute instead of playing games, like look out of...

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