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  • Leigh Alexander
    3:27 am Tue, Sep 15, 2015
    Read a bold new magazine for interactive fiction fans

    The ambitious new Sub-Q aims to create a brand new venue for interactive fiction and the players who love it. Fans believe the form is going mainstream in a big way, and there are ever more ways for you—yes, you!—to take part.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    6:00 am Fri, Sep 11, 2015
    How to make great levels in Nintendo's Mario Maker

    Level design is its own kind of playful art: part theatre and part architecture, you’re making spaces to challenge and delight other people.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    6:13 am Thu, Sep 10, 2015
    Join a colorful crew of bounty hunters in this choice-driven visual novel

    A team experienced at eerie, atmospheric sci fi is developing a new visual novel with amazing illustrations and a diverse crew.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    5:03 am Thu, Sep 10, 2015
    Is Metal Gear Solid V as big as David Bowie right now?

    The musical references of this year's most daunting commercial video game are resonating in surprising and brilliant ways.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    7:23 am Wed, Sep 9, 2015
    This 'empathy game' reveals a real challenge for indie games

    Anna Anthropy's "sequel to dys4ia" sheds light on the conflicting aftermath of the "empathy games" boom, and the fact so many celebrated creators are still alone and afraid.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    6:02 am Wed, Sep 9, 2015
    Like words? Play with simile and metaphor in this unusual mystery app

    Your revolver is like a trusty assistant. I mean, it is your assistant, and his name is Mr. Smith Wesson.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    9:23 am Mon, Sep 7, 2015
    Mobile game of the week: Wuwu and Co.

    It really does feel like a book come to life: With playful music, the crunch of snow and pretty, modern animal illustrations, you tilt and shake the device to interact gently with the stories and characters on all sides of you.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    4:45 am Mon, Sep 7, 2015
    Offworld Monday reflection: What's good, Tinder Renaissance zombies?

    Last week on Offworld saw us interrogate the millennial tech panic, play games about the Renaissance, watch a couple documentaries and collect Nicki Minaj fanart.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    5:28 am Fri, Sep 4, 2015
    Developers mourn a canceled project in this short 'cave painting' about grief

    After a large-scale commercial project abruptly ended, veterans of Spec Ops: The Line studio Yager Interactive decided to make a small jam game about grief and loss.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    4:32 am Fri, Sep 4, 2015
    $10,000 fellowship available to aspiring game developers with disabilities

    A nonprofit devoted to advocating for accessibility in video games is now offering a generous fellowship to eligible design students.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    7:22 am Thu, Sep 3, 2015
    Become a ruthless, noble lady in this 'Renaissance revenge simulator'

    Your wealthy father and brother have been killed by distasteful schemers, and now you're to be married off to one of them. Can you plan your brutal revenge without arousing suspicion—while acting like a perfect courtly lady?

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  • Leigh Alexander
    6:16 am Thu, Sep 3, 2015
    You're a laboratory mistake. Can anybody love you?

    In A Heart Between Parts, your first act as a player is to unsnip the thread that sews your lips shut. Some scientist tried to make himself a wife and… Read the rest of the article: You're a laboratory mistake. Can anybody love you?

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  • Leigh Alexander
    5:35 am Thu, Sep 3, 2015
    This gamification 'documentary' is a work of art

    Gamification is easy for people to get excited about. Enjoy this dark, witty video instead.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    5:05 am Thu, Sep 3, 2015
    Try AURA, a meditative, musical twin-stick shooter

    It's part twin-stick shooter, part musical exploration game, and it looks lovely.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    8:47 am Wed, Sep 2, 2015
    Buy Windows 95, Dances With Wolves and Myst in this vaporwave classic

    Don't miss this cool vaporwave game about the end of the "hanging at the mall" consumerist heyday.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    6:42 am Tue, Sep 1, 2015
    You are Bigfoot, so don't let anybody film you

    Make sure the legendary sasquach never really appears on film in this sweet "reverse stealth" minigame.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    6:17 am Tue, Sep 1, 2015
    Equip all children with scissors, reject capitalism?

    I can't survive the fist. I don't know if I've killed the children. Help me out with this one.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    6:01 am Tue, Sep 1, 2015
    Can working on violent video games mess you up?

    Here are some pictures of tumors, colonoscopy and viscera for reference. Enjoy your next two years of work!

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  • Leigh Alexander
    5:48 am Tue, Sep 1, 2015
    Smash the city in this riotous 'slam-em-up'

    Eff it up hardcore in this all-girl project from New York.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    4:42 am Mon, Aug 31, 2015
    Mobile game of the week: Sage Solitaire

    Computer Solitaire is among the most-played games in the world, so you wouldn't think there's much to refresh, but prolific designer Zach Gage has a brand new idea about a near-universal experience.

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