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SPOILER ALERT: This post SPOILS what happens in Before The Green Moon. I strongly recommend playing it first. Before The Green Moon  (on It...

Some random notes and thoughts from Quake modding land, in this cold wintery June of 2022: Community Hubs Official Mods The Future of My Qua...

SPOILER WARNING: this post spoils levels, main quests, and gameplay systems in Deathloop I guess this post is my contribution to Deathloop d...

I made another Quake map! This one is called "Smell It In The Street" and it was made for the Doom Tintin map jam , a level design...

I finished playing two 2020 RPG tactics games recently: Horizon's Gate and Gears Tactics. I've also written at length about Invisibl...

Last week I finished playing through the entirety of NaissanceE (2014) , an avant-garde walking sim / platformer game inspired by brutali...

OK I know Heavy Rain isn't an FPS but I like this screenshot so I don't care Every semester for our introductory Games 101 hist...

A soldier hiding behind a gray box in a futuristic lab, from Deus Ex Human Revolution (2011) The room pictured above from Deus Ex: Human...

In "Portraits and Repetition", Gertrude Stein argues that repetition is better understood as "insistence": "....

This post spoils the gameplay and ending of my game Dream Hard . In collaboration with local arcade collective Death by Audio Arcade , m...

This post spoils some gameplay systems / moments in Fortune-499 and its general themes, but none of the specific plot events. I just fini...

NOTE: There are somewhat vague spoilers about the general plot for several games in this post. US high school students are generally re...

This post contains a few general gameplay spoilers for Dishonored: Death of the Outsider. Many years ago, Rock Paper Shotgun published ...

WARNING: This post "spoils" an early quest in Fallout 4 and a later quest in Fallout 3. The "Diamond City Blues" qu...

The Loch is a 2013 Scottish fishing RPG by Mitch Alexander. In it, you "fight" fish in turn-based JRPG battles symbolizing the...

Wow, I've been blogging here for about 3 years now. This blog is now approaching the end of its toddler years. Much like last year , ...

This is a post for the "New Horizons" blog round table thing at Critical Distance. Literature, music, theater, and film all h...

Okay, I exaggerate. But I'm of the mind that conflict is often productive. I wrote about "A Closed World" more than a mont...

Indie platformers spawned sub-genres like the sudden-death one button jumpers, masocore and explore-'em-ups among countless others. The ...