Jamin Warren

machinima

Miles Buckle Makes Games You Can't Play

Miles Buckle rebuilds Rear Window, Amarcord and Hitchcock's Rope as late-'90s games nobody will ever play, and the impossibility is exactly the point.

Playlist

Watch Bruno Abib's Death in August [Members Only]

A drowning, a riot, and a bike ride through San Andreas

Podcast

What a Rickshaw Knows That a Car Doesn't [Podcast]

I ask Kalp Studio's Mannat Jain why she built a game around the ride between two places, and set it in a 1990s Goa that never existed.

RAAHI

The Long Way Around

Kalp Studio built Raahi around the thing most games treat as dead time—the ride between two places—and set it in a 1990s Goan town that never existed.

Playlist

Who Do You Let In: What to Play, August 7

Careful what you let through the door.

Podcast

Do Good Games Taste Like Gasoline? [Podcast]

Danny Snelson on Bennett Foddy’s gasoline problem, a school rebuilt as a Halo map, and three games worth knowing this week.

baby steps

Bennett Foddy's Games Taste Like Gasoline

The Baby Steps game designer reflects on jadedness, embodiment, and building a failson from two decades of human movement

Playlist

A Walk and The Talk: What to Play, July 31

Grief and routine come to pass in this week's Playlist selection

Brute Horse

KS Radar: A man and his horse look for a vet

Plus stop-motion goodness from Jack King-Spooner and a bevy of updates from Alice Bucknell

Currently Making

I Want to Drag It as Long as Possible

Two decades of self-published comics taught Decadence Comics to take a deep breath. Their first game, Rhizomatic Compound, is built to slow you down.

Playlist

What to Play: July 24th

Honk honk, beep beep

intersections

Ok, fine, let's talk some more about penalty kicks

A reader comment sparked an interesting idea