Welcome to another installment of “What We’re Playing.” All of our Barbie posts kept us busy for a while, but now we’re back to the regularly scheduled programming of other great (and not so great) games. We’ve been busy catching up on some older titles, checking out the new installations of titles, and being pleasantly…
Hot Date: Pugs Don’t Like Poetry
Welcome to the second installation of An Adventure in Small Games (you can read the first one here), a monthly series focused on games that cost less than $20, ideally less than $10. In this series, Eve Golden Woods will focus on the indie game and what it has to offer the world of gaming.
Diversity in The Walking Dead: Clementine Will Remember That
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, The Walking Dead comic, now TV show, is set in a not-too-distant future in which the wide-spread zombie plague has brought about the apocalypse. The video game is set in the same general area as the comics, but centers around a different cast…
Alphabear: Unbearably Cute
Name: Alphabear Studio: Spryfox http://www.spryfox.com Cost: Free to play with in-app purchases Platform: Android/IOS (this review covers the Android version) Genre: Word/Puzzle Release Date: July, 2015 Other games: Triple Town, Road Not Taken [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4_XkvQCOGc&w=560&h=315] If you ever played Triple Town–the game where you had to build a town and keep the bears from blocking your…
Her Story: a Unique Gaming Experience That’s Good/Bad/Just Okay
The year is 1994, and a man named Simon has been reported missing, then dead, by his wife Hannah. She submits herself to several police interrogations, but the questions are now lost. Dig through the police archive, searching only by indexed keywords, and follow her narrative carefully to unravel the strange mystery of one widow….
“There Can Never Be Too Many Games” – An Interview with Kitfox Games’ Tanya Short
During my recent visit to Stage Select, Toronto’s new gaming convention, I caught the tail end of the keynote address from Tanya X. Short, Creative Director of Kitfox Games. Along with Tanya, Xin Ran Liu, Mike Ditchburn, Jongwoo Kim, and Ryan Roth have combined their years of gaming industry expertise to create Shattered Planet, a survival adventure game…
Get Your Game on Wednesday
Alrighty gaming clans, it’s time for this week’s round-up. If you’re like me and already drowning in coverage from San Diego Comic Con, take a quick sanity break and play a game or two.
Game Diary: Technical Difficulties
All through the month of June, my partner and I are creating a dating sim for the International Love Ultimatum Gamejam (#ilujam on Twitter and Tumblr). Want to know what goes into making a video game? I’ll be posting weekly updates in a structured development blog here. This week: bringing it all together for Beach…
Oracle: Voices and Silence
Welcome to the second installation of An Adventure in Small Games (you can read the first one here), a monthly series focused on games that cost less than $20, ideally less than $10. In this series Eve Golden Woods will focus on the indie game and what it has to offer the world of gaming.
Game Diary: Putting the Visuals in Visual Novels
All through the month of June, my partner and I are creating a dating sim for the International Love Ultimatum Gamejam (#ilujam on Twitter and Tumblr). Want to know what goes into making a video game? I’ll be posting weekly updates in a structured development blog here. This week: making players connect emotionally with character…