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This is how you end up making a clay video game: Most game artists are used to working with pixels and polygons, but what do you do when you’re an artist just getting into development? If you’re like Anders Gustafsson and Erik Zaring, you make your game out of clay. – – – Both Gustafsson and Zaring
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Terry Cavanagh, the creator of Super Hexagon, was trying to rerelease his 2009 flash game Don’t Look Back on the iTunes store. It was rejected because it contained a description that did not comply with the app store guidelines: The sentence that ruffled Apple’s feathers was “there are no in-app pur
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The tradition of letter-writing hasn’t yet died. On dearada.com, anyone can write a letter to Ada Lovelace, the first programmer. Lovelace was the daughter of poet Lord Byron and inherited some of his aptitude for creating scandals; Lovelace wasn’t afraid to do things that were considered improper.
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The Vita game library is still small, so Dokuro, out for download today, is a welcome addition. As a little skull man, you lead a princess across obstacles by arranging things just so. The game’s visuals are inspired by storybook illustrations. Before the development team had even begun work on Doko
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State of Play is a series of interviews with videogame professionals. Their most recent interview with Edmund McMillen of Super Meat Boy fame shows him reflecting on Indie Game: The Movie: how he had to distance himself from fans, and the necessity of creative production for his mental health.
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The Indie Royale Fall bundle offers a chance to play five great games for a meager price. It includes To the Moon, which has some of the best sci-fi storytelling in a game I’ve seen recently, as well as the lauded adventure game The Blackwell Deception. The bundle also offers the adorable god-game R
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Someone asked Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway to judge the GameCity prize for videogames. She agreed, as a way to get in touch with her sons. She found the experience of playing videogames for the first time frustrating and baffling. Her experience playing Fez: This was developed by a young
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What’s funner than any videogame, and almost as fun as a zipline? That’s right: a TRAMPOLINE. Some French geniuses have built a trampoline bridge over the Seine, and the children of France (and children at heart of France) are currently rejoicing, in midair, and HEY CHECK IT OUT I’M DOING A BACKFLIP
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Mike Singleton’s obituary in Rock, Paper, Shotgun: [He] will perhaps be best remembered for a series of remarkably ambitious ZX Spectrum titles including The Lords of Midnight, Doomdark’s Revenge, and War In Middle-Earth. Personally I was enormously influenced by his Midwinter games for 16-bit home
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TheTruth, the anti-smoking campaign, created a full fledged mobile game to counter the devious advertising of tobacco companies. Flavor Monsters aims to shed light on the machinations of big Tobacco (flavored cigarettes? Seriously?) Check out the gameplay:
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Jason Johnson briefly interviewed legendary indie developer Jason Rohrer over at Paste. They covered the Diamond Trust of London debacle, how Rohrer lives off of $14,000 a year, and how he considered making a devilish version of Passage 2 to profit off of. Passage 2 would make a lot of money. That’s
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Look, this is a PSA for gamers who are trolls, and we know you’re out there. Internet trolls are rude, but do they have cultural value? Whitney Phillips, who wrote her dissertation on trolls, argues that the Internet bullies are telling of aspects of Internet culture. Trolls are cultural scavengers