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I’ve got 99 problems but Notch’s new game about existential dread isn’t one

02 May 2014 1 min read News

The bowler-hat-wearing, dubstep-bash-throwing Minecraft creator created a quick little game about exploring the squirmy mental content of a nihilist. Coded for the latest Ludum Dare game jam, Drowning in Problems is sort of an existential take on the Cookie Clicker genre. This text-based, choice-lad

The professor who discovered 80-year-old pixel art

26 Feb 2014 1 min read News

If not for ASCII art, we wouldn’t have ASCII games like Candy box and Dwarf Fortress. And that would be terrible. So the way I look at it, we are greatly indebted to “ARTYPING,” which was invented in the early 20th century and done on typewriters. Some early examples of this forgotten art-form recen

How idle clicking games took over my life

22 Nov 2013 5 min read Article

From Cookie Clicker to Candy Box 2 and back again.

Candy Box 2 and the beauty of the smart stupid game

04 Nov 2013 4 min read Review

An exegesis, with candy.