Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Radiator Blog: Three Year Anniversary

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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 , ...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Desperate Gods and rules-forcing in video games.

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Desperate Gods , by Wolfire Games , is a virtual board game made for Fuck This Jam ; you have a bunch of virtually simulated tokens and ca...
Saturday, November 17, 2012

On why Convo is now a WW2 spy romance, and the myth of psychological realism in fiction.

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Short version: I've chickened out, a bit. Long version? To make some sort of procedural "anything", you have to have an i...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

Dear Esther postpartum, by Robert Briscoe.

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Rob Briscoe has put-out a really heart-felt, personal, death-defying postpartum on Dear Esther. I think if you ask the vast majority of ca...
Friday, November 9, 2012

Dishonored's narrative design: how The Heart lies to you.

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(UPDATE: this interview at RPS with Arkane devs confirms that not only was I right, but that it was also a very conscious decision on thei...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Convo and "what do simulations simulate?"

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Simulations are simplified systems that have some semblance to the real world. The decrease in complexity, the ways in which the simulatio...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Why Frog Fractions is one of the best games of 2012.

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First, you really should play Frog Fractions right now. My SPOILER-y thoughts are after the jump.

"Zobeide" at Playing The Game, 27-28 October in Milan

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I'm fixing up Zobeide / adding a few features for yet another Lunarcade event, this time at "Playing The Game" in Milan ...