Last week, I reviewed the first hour of Flying Mollusk’s Nevermind, which mostly meant I worked my way through the training session and a bit of the first real part of the game. In my initial gameplay, I was introduced to some heavy possible directions for the narrative: an alcoholic mother, […]
Charlotte Hyde
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I first wrote about Nevermind last year after reading about the developers’ goals for the game via their Kickstarter campaign. Nevermind was billed as a horror game with a twist: the more fear the player feels, the harder the game gets. The intention here is to help players learn to […]
This week, I’ve been playing Life is Strange, rereading I am Charlotte Simmons, and thinking about unlikable characters. Both Life is Strange and I am Charlotte Simmons are filled with characters that I just do not like, but nevertheless I’m fully invested in both narratives this week. Unlikable characters often […]
Recently, LEGO rejected a LEGO Ideas submission featuring the women of the Supreme Court, citing LEGO’s rule of not engaging with current politics. On one hand, I see their point; I don’t really want political LEGO sets, and I can certainly think of more than a few politicians that I […]
As an experiment last week, I boxed up my Xbox 360. I’m trying to downsize, and I wanted to see how I would feel about using the Xbox One exclusively. I was only a couple of days into this experiment when I realized it was not going to work. Like […]
Adult Fans of LEGO or AFOL’s represent a very active, creative community of people who love to build with LEGO bricks. I like to spend time browsing through their creations on Flickr and Reddit, and recently I stumbled across this thread on Reddit, promoting Lego artist, Mariann Asanuma, as the […]
This week, I’m reviewing The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Zelda fans will need to bear with me a bit because I’m a relative noob to Zelda games. My only other experience with Zelda was playing a few hours of A Link Between Worlds. And while, I enjoyed A Link […]
I was looking for resources for my professional writing students who are interested in learning to program when I ran across this Lifehacker article. Many of their suggestions are great (and ones we have already discussed in class), but they list “Playing Coding Games,” and I hadn’t heard of that. […]
Over the past few days, I’ve spent a lot of time playing/researching classic games, due to both the release of Grim Fandango Remastered and the upcoming demise of Club Nintendo. Last week I picked up Grim Fandango because it looked like a fun game that I could play on my […]
Lumino City is a point and click adventure from State of Play, which combines digital design with physical design. The developers of Lumino City physically built the game world out of paper and tiny lights, and then created a video game out of this little paper city. And, the results are […]
Last year after I finished playing Among the Sleep, I really wanted to discuss the game with someone. The game was awesome and scary and disturbing. I didn’t know how, exactly, I felt about the game and, in particular, the ending, but I craved a conversation about it. At the […]
Last week I named Life is Strange as one of the games I was most looking forward to this month, so I was a little disappointed to hear that some of the publishers Dontnod Entertainment approached wanted the protagonists changed to men. I suppose that shouldn’t surprise me, but it […]
January brought a bunch of new LEGO sets (as usual), many of which I’m pretty excited about. I was particularly excited about the Detective’s Office and the new LEGO Ideas set, Birds. I ordered both, and I’m impatiently awaiting delivery today (Out for Delivery!). They also released a bunch of […]
This week, with all of the terrible news, I wanted to play something light, so I picked up Tales from Deep Space. An Amazon Game Studios Kindle adventure, Tales from Deep Space is a cute adventure game for the Kindle Fire HDX and 2014 Kindle Fires, so the game is […]
Over the past few years, I have found myself mostly uninterested in Black Friday (or, is it now Black Thursday?). My mom and I used to go every year, although we never did any hardcore shopping. Instead, we just got up early and shopped around a bit for fun. My […]
The latest viral letter from LEGO made me a bit sad. The message is great, but reading it makes me sad because it was written in 1974, before I was born. Forty years ago LEGO wrote To Parents. The urge to create is equally strong in all children. Boys and […]