Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Postcards from Quakeland, 2022

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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...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

"Quake Renaissance" for Rock Paper Shotgun

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For Rock Paper Shotgun, I recently wrote a three-part series "Quake Renaissance" . Part 1 is an industry history of Quake's c...
Saturday, May 30, 2020

The powerful presence of non-presence in "Out For Delivery" by Yuxin Gao, Lillyan Ling, Gus Boehling

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" Out For Delivery is a 42 minute playable documentary shot with a 360-degree camera. The slice-of-life experience follows a food de...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Borderlands The Pre-Sequel as Australian industry elegy

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We played Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (essentially, Borderlands 2.5) on co-op mode, and yep it's a Borderlands game. You run around...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

We must cultivate our garden: games as personal history

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This post is based on a talk I gave at A MAZE Berlin 2019, as part of the Dev.olution "Games as Gardening" summit , as part of ...
Monday, November 5, 2018

The first person shooter is a dad in mid-life crisis

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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...
Friday, June 22, 2018

Dream Hard as queer brawler defense

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This post spoils the gameplay and ending of my game Dream Hard . In collaboration with local arcade collective Death by Audio Arcade , m...
Saturday, February 3, 2018

Video killed the video star: on "Un Pueblo De Nada" by Cardboard Computer

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This post spoils Un Pueblo De Nada as well as a few parts of Kentucky Route Zero. The newest Kentucky Route Zero interlude  Un Pueblo De...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

On wikipedia-ing games culture and history

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damn pic.twitter.com/kzGGyOLof3 — Robert Yang / Roberto Yanga (@radiatoryang) January 10, 2018 The other day, someone wrote to me but co...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

The second death of the immersive sim (2007-2017) and a dark prophecy for a third-wave immersive sim

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This post contains a few general gameplay spoilers for Dishonored: Death of the Outsider. Many years ago, Rock Paper Shotgun published ...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Go West young Slime Rancher, and grow up with the country

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This post spoils some mechanics and game systems in Slime Rancher. One in-game day in Slime Rancher , I found a rare " quantum slim...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

From modders to mimics: a people's history of the "prop hunt" genre

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This post contains minor gameplay spoilers for the first hour of Prey (2017). Contemporary game design is built on the blood, sweat, and...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

A history (and the triumph) of the environment artist: on The Witness and Firewatch

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This post vaguely spoils random bits of Firewatch and The Witness. I wouldn't worry about it. Only a few years ago, hiking games (f...
Friday, April 3, 2015

"Stick Shift" as activist autoerotica

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This is a post detailing my process and intent in making Stick Shift . It has SPOILERS; if you care about that kind of thing, then you s...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Logic Quest 3D, the lost history of the edutainment FPS and a nostalgia you never had.

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In 1997, before Half-Life and before Thief, someone made a mass market medieval-themed puzzle FPS with full voice acting, commandable NPC...