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Normally, RPGs are about building a party. You start off with, say, a country bumpkin whose destiny is to align seven crystals and save the world from ruin, but first you’ll need to recruit a ragtag group of warriors, white witches, black witches, pink witches, ninjas, robber-barons, bear-wrestlers,
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In a harrowing tidbit of information that filled us and doubtlessly a few of our readers with existential questions, Hidetaka Miyazaki, the director of the widely praised Dark Souls and Demon’s Souls games, told reporters at Edge that he would have a very minimal role, a supervisory one, in the prod
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Tutorials, those intolerable instances at the start of a game when we surrender our attention to scrupulous instruction on sense-dulling punctilio, aren’t fun. At best a banal evil, and at worst a reason to give up on a game altogether, they have a tendency to knock me out. Though I was initially ex
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It’s confirmed. When kids today grow up and look back at the media they consumed as tots, they’ll think the same thing we did upon reexamining children’s classics such as Alice in Wonderland or the “Pink Elephants on Parade” singalong from Dumbo: “Whoa, that’s some seriously drugged-out stuff!” Don’
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We just wrote about how SimCity, the world-famous simulation game that lets you manage a living breathing city, is an inspiration for a new era of interactive maps. Using notes from a knowledgable architect, Tested has broken down how the beta stacks up against the real-life process of planning and
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It has been said that war is long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. So what goes on during the long boring parts? I always assumed idle minds at war were occupied by the endless shining of boots and smoky rounds of poker. Oh, but it’s so much unbelievably sexier. – – – As ear
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Interviews with Jake Elliot, one of the easygoing chaps behind the serene and magically-real adventure game Kentucky Route Zero, always prove enjoyable. And I’m not just saying that because I happened to interview him before either! It’s because Jake is a down to earth guy with a broad range of inte
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Ramsey Nasser of New York’s Eyebeam Art+Technology Center (no relation to Albert Ayler’s New York Eye And Ear Control, sorry) has created Alb, which is perhaps the first Arabic programming language. While I for one am excited by the prospect of replacing our banal and rather clunky Latin letters wit
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We here at Kill Screen are constantly amazed by the number of ways that videogames, a medium that started off as the frivolous pastime of reticent computer engineers, hasrubbed off on so many different aspects of modern life. Case in point: digital maps. We were navigating overworlds of Hyrule from
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Can footman Thomas Barrow save the abbey? We don’t know, because this graphic-adventure adaptation of everyone’s favorite T.V. show about snooty British butlers isn’t real. Chiptune composer Bill Kiley had the brilliant idea to lay down an 8-bit version of Downton Abbey’s theme, and he took the libe
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Last night I got a chance to kick my feet up with Wave Trip, a new snazzy music game by the sangfroid dudes at Lucky Frame. After doing so, I took it as my duty to tell you about it right away! Like all the great iOS games, Wave Trip is quite simple, almost disposable really. You pilot a lilting tri
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We’ve all been there. The hiring process at a new job is typically a gauche, banal affair. There is lengthy paperwork fill out. Contracts to go over. An icy rep from H.R. casting a watchful eye. The shameful revelation that you’ve forgotten your pen and have to ask to borrow one. Then, there’s the i