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This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters) – Book Review
Read more: This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters) – Book ReviewI guess I’m doing book reviews for a bit. Look, at least some of these books will be about games, so at least that helps. Not this one though! This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong is a (generally) non-fiction book by Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones, who are better known for their Map Men…
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An Interview with Jongwoo Kim, Creative Director of Lucifer Within Us
Read more: An Interview with Jongwoo Kim, Creative Director of Lucifer Within Us“The players should feel like Holmes, not Watson”
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Perfect Heist 2
Read more: Perfect Heist 2I like Perfect Heist 2. It’s a fantastic asymmetric deception game about robbing, or preventing the robbing of banks. So does that mean the game is as perfect as its name implies? No. It has a lot of problems. But it’s fun, and that’s really all that matters. Writing the intro paragraph for this article…
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Super Auto Pets
Read more: Super Auto PetsSuper Auto Pets is pretty neat. Overall I like it, and I recommend it. It’s available on mobile and PC, but unlike most mobile games doesn’t have the sort of monetization that makes you feel like you’ve given your phone an STI by downloading it, and just offers expansion packs instead. So now that I’ve…
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Game genre names, or why I like ‘Auto-Chess’ more than ‘Auto-Battler’
Read more: Game genre names, or why I like ‘Auto-Chess’ more than ‘Auto-Battler’Sometimes new game genres come up with names perfectly encapsulate the primary ideas and mechanics in a simple understandable way. When that happens, we get names like Battle Royale. Sometimes they don’t, and we get the holy war between the Roguelite and Roguelike people. And sometimes an entire genre gets invented more or less by…
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