[Cross-posted to ludoscholar.net] This week on Coffee Break, I finally played the game that I’ve been talking about for weeks: Yoku’s Island Express. For me, this game excels on a lot of fronts. First, it’s an unlikely mash-up of the… Continue Reading
This week on Board Meeting, special guests Kristine and Kelsey joined Dave, Janelle and I to play the movie-themed card games Cinephile (designed by Cory Everett and illustrated by Steve Isaacs) and Double Feature (designed/illustrated by John Kovalic) to celebrate… Continue Reading
The 2010s have come and gone and as always there are a lot of retrospective lists coming out ranking the “best” games, albums, movies, shows, and whatnot of the decade. I figured instead of trying to delineate what games were… Continue Reading
What in-game and in-person elements determine how much time we’re willing to spend on a particular objective, narrative, or sequence in a game? Similarly, how does a player’s relationship to the time passing within a game and the time passing in the… Continue Reading
On this week’s episode of The Arena, Erik Kersting, Daniel Marques, and I played Dragon Ball FighterZ. We’re revisiting FighterZ within the context of our month-long theme of competitive fighting games. This week, Erik introduced the idea of a taxonomy of fighting games and we talked about what… Continue Reading
On this week’s episode of The Arena, Erik Kersting, Daniel Marques, and I played Rocket League. This began our playthrough of the different games featured at the 2020 Intel World Open. Next year, this tournament series will lead up to the Olympic Summer Games… Continue Reading
Last week, Serious Play welcomed UWM’s Chancellor Mark Mone, as well as Provost Johannes Britz and Chief of Staff Sue Weslow, for gameplay and conversation over Super Smash Brothers. The game, which began as something geared to a party context… Continue Reading
On last week’s episode of The Arena, Janelle Malagon, Daniel Marques, Dave Stanely, and I played Super Smash Bros: Ultimate. This week’s show is a continuation of “Fighter Month” where we’ve played Street Fighter V and will play other competitive… Continue Reading
On this week’s episode of The Arena, Erik Kersting, Daniel Marques, and I played Street Fighter V. This week, we continued our tour of the games featured at the Intel World Open, slated to lead up to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo. Nation-based… Continue Reading
In continuation of our animal-themed month, we had a go with Goat Simulator, a game meant to poke fun at the simulator genre by putting the player in control of a goat who is a device of pure destruction. The game embraces the… Continue Reading