Showing posts with label increpare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label increpare. Show all posts
Monday, March 6, 2017

The melancholy of screen space in "Universal History of Light" by Stephen Lavelle

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WARNING: This post somewhat "spoils" the 2014 game Universal History of Light. Stephen "increpare" Lavelle's &q...
Friday, March 15, 2013

simian.interface, and filler puzzles as phenomenology.

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simian.interface , by Vested Interest, is a game that never tells you the controls or how to play or what your goals are, but you'll ...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

How Tutorials Should Be Done

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Why make sloppy pop-up text "tutorials" that give away all the mechanics / dynamics (I'm looking at you, BioShock) when you ca...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Welcome to the Indie FPS.

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Indie platformers spawned sub-genres like the sudden-death one button jumpers, masocore and explore-'em-ups among countless others. The ...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Mother Robot

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One of these days I'm going to get-in on Ludum Dare / KOTM / all these "make a crappy game and make it quickly" competitions. ...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Exhibition: "Vida Interior" at Intermediae

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Handle With Care (or should I say, "Cuidado, Frágil"?) is part of a super-way-cool-gee-whiz "alt games" exhibition (if ...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Don't Get Me Wrong, I Love Increpare

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... but sometimes I'm really just disturbed and at a loss as to what to say about his stuff -- "The Terrible Whiteness of Appalachi...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Why Games Aren't Art (a design perspective)

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It's a dead horse, I know. Wait, don't leave! Okay, video games have cultural legitimacy and an artistic component, sure -- but h...