Showing posts with label rts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rts. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Design review of Against The Storm, by Eremite Games

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Against the Storm  by Eremite Games ( Steam page , official site ) is a popular 2.5D town-building run-based RTS with a Warcraft 3 inspired ...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Tactics games in 2020: game design notes about Horizon's Gate and Gears Tactics

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I finished playing two 2020 RPG tactics games recently: Horizon's Gate and Gears Tactics. I've also written at length about Invisibl...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Capsule reviews, vol. 1

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Capsule reviews are short critiques of games that I've been playing. In this post, I discuss Heaven's Vault, Virginia, Islanders,...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

"Pylons are my penis": a phenomenology of building in Offworld Trading Company and other strategy games

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Game feel always has a narrative aspect tied to the player's in-game identity -- but in a top-down strategy game, who are you? Why do...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Deceptive epistemologies in strategy game interfaces, and a theory of strong vs. weak fallibility.

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When you play Command and Conquer or Starcraft, you're supposedly some anonymous commander at a console who can see everything and co...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Talking about Convo.

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Figuring out how to talk about your game is part of designing your game -- so trying to explain Convo to various people has been extremely...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Introduction to Starcraft and Heidegger (Part 1)

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(This is a two-part essay on Starcraft II, why it is great, and its relation to Heidegger's writings on technology using Sirlin's e...