Serious Play August 7, 2019 In the room: Nathan Humpal (playing), Kelly Brajevich, Josh Rivers, Thomas Malaby; online: Serious_Play, GameScholar, ludologue, and one other. It’s August and the academics are warming up for the start of seminar season three weeks… Continue Reading
[Cross-posted to Doubt is an Art.] Nathan, Kelly, and I were joined by Kelly’s sister Caitlin for July 3rd’s episode of the Lunchzone, where we continued our playing through of The Witcher III (find Stuart’s write-up of our Jun19th session… Continue Reading
By Scott M. Bruner PhD Student, English, Bard of Skara Brae One of the issues that’s come up a few times during Classic Quests (Every Tuesday from 1-2ish!) is that most of us didn’t play a lot of Richard Garriott’s… Continue Reading
Developer: Devolver Released: September 10, 2015 Genre: Point-and-click Platform: PC (Steam) Played: November 2, 2018 Show notes Kris played Dropsy (Devolver 2015), a point-and-click game with bizarre aesthetics and a jazzy soundtrack provided by Chris Schlarb. Dropsy has received critical… Continue Reading
Developer: Bloober Team Released: August 2, 2016 Genre: Horror Platform: PC (Steam) Played: October 31, 2018 Show notes Laya, Thomas, Kelly, and Kris explore another dark, Gothic world – this time in Bloober Team’s Layers of Fear. Featuring many of… Continue Reading
Developer: Frictional Games (Twitter: @frictionalgames) Released: September 2010 (Windows) Genre: Horror Platform: Steam Played: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 Show notes Laya, Thomas, Nathan, Kelly, and Kris explore the dank, Gothic world of Amnesia. The game exerts a liberal amount of control over… Continue Reading
Author’s note: This is a draft of a post to see how blog posts look on the Collaboratory site. Released over three decades ago, Origin Systems’ Ultima IV in an anachronistic computer game to be playing in an age of… Continue Reading