From the crucible of another game jam—this time it’s the Public Domain Jam—an adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” has emerged [play here]. Famous for its visceral depiction of obsessive behavior (H.P. Lovecraft was a noted fan) as much as its social subtext, “
Last month’s Cyberpunk Game Jam has yielded enough interesting, colorful, diverse games to make Molly Millions do that gross thing where she cries through her mouth. With ten days to work, many devs came out the other side with impressively realized games. A few suggestions: first, prolific jammer/m
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a game where a player wearing an Oculus Rift has to defuse a bomb per the instruction of her non-mask-wearing teammates. The clever thing here is it plays off many of the Rift’s faults: Strapping a mask to your head is exclusionary and awkward, there’s only one he
There are many obvious problems with the failed “GAME_JAM” Iron Chef-style reality show that imploded after just a day of filming. To start with, a show based on a contest that involves participants tweaking code on their computer for hours on end doesn’t exactly make for riveting TV. And that’s bef
