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Boston FIG 2026
Read more: Boston FIG 2026I went to Boston FIG today! Or yesterday. Not quite sure when I’m going to finish this article, so it’s possible neither of those end up being true. Anyway, the Boston Festival of Indie Games is a small event focused on surfacing independent and in development board and video games. In my case, it’s a…
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Q-Up
Read more: Q-UpQ-Up is a lot of different things. It’s a incremental game. It’s a competitive coin-flipping eSport. It’s a weird satire of live service games and tech startups. Oh, and it has a really cool grid based node engine building system, and slightly less interesting, but still compelling item system. Finally, it’s a game that I…
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I went to a GMG Playtest Event!
Read more: I went to a GMG Playtest Event!Probably shouldn’t have abbreviated that quite so much, but GMG stands for Game Makers Guild! If you haven’t heard of the Game Makers Guild, they’re a group down in Boston that provides a bunch of services for indie designers, including design help, curation, and also runs playtesting events. I’ve written a fair amount about various…
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Ball X Pit
Read more: Ball X PitBall X Pit is Breakout X Vampire Survivors. There are a lot of things it does that I like, and it executes well on a most of its mechanics. Despite all that, I’m not sure that I want to recommend it, because I don’t really feel like I’m having fun with it. More on that…
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Funspot NH – A Quick Review
Read more: Funspot NH – A Quick ReviewFor my mildly belated birthday, one of my friends put together a trip down to Funspot several months ago. If you haven’t heard of Funspot, it’s the “world’s largest arcade” according to Guinness World Records. It’s an interesting place, both for the entertainments inside, and a secondary “vibe”. One of the first things you might…
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