“I do not Dunkey, but I might have Spaghetti and meatballs if you ask nicely” Landon from GameStop Recently, the Lunch Zone crew and I got around to playing Heart of Enya – which is a game with relatively… Continue Reading
During Coffee Break last week, I demonstrated an aspect of a programme I have been writing for Dungeon Masters. This programme will allow a group of DMs to build a world together, which is stored on an SQL Server.… Continue Reading
But how does one love what’s made of light and so far away – Emilia Philips Latte foam, the smell of a hastily made lunch, and buzzing computer fans are the essence of Serious Play. Our little collab, spread out… Continue Reading
Several weeks ago on the Coffee Break stream, I played Kojima Production’s Death Stranding. Watching back that stream, I’m struck by the amount of on-screen data that the player is tasked with parsing at a glance. The game’s environment shows… Continue Reading
Last month, I was ready to go off on a long-term adventure to complete Ubisoft’s 2017 Assassin’s Creed: Origins. However, during the first episode, my PC overheated and shut down upon pressing W, halting the show until I made some… Continue Reading
So this coming week marks the first week of a new show I’m running called Keeping it 100 (💯). By streaming (at least) once a week for (at least) a couple of hours, I’m going to play through a game… Continue Reading
No more broken hearts / We’re better off apart / Let’s give it a try / Tell me, tell me, tell me lies -Fleetwood Mac (“Little Lies”) For the month of April, I’ve been playing through Sam Barlow’s Telling… Continue Reading
For the past several weeks Kelly has been playing a dating sim that I recommended to her, Ace in Space. It’s a dating sim with 8 endings, wherein you play as Enby, known at the start of the game as… Continue Reading
[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
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