As I’m sure you know, Board Meeting (Serious Play’s show dedicated to analog board and card gaming) is currently on hiatus due to the ongoing pandemic. However, in addition to completing my coursework and preparing for my preliminary exams,… 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
Erik Plays Doom 64 Erik is playing the classic restyled classic shooter from 1997. Laya and Kelly join on Discord. Chat welcomes Peaches, Streamlabs, and Strongercoff33. Praise for the Claymation-derived denizens of Hell, a.k.a. clay pigeons from Hell. Erik seeks… 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
Over the past month I’ve been playing through Valve’s Half Life: Alyx in my free time. For those unfamiliar, Alyx is a a prequel to Valve’s hugely successful and influential Half Life 2, but more importantly, it is the first… Continue Reading
On this week’s episode of The Arena, Erik, Kelly, and I discussed wonky character design, the failures of multinational corporations, and the phenomenon of using Twitch as a marketing platform. If this doesn’t quite make it clear: on this week’s… Continue Reading
I had a plan to write on Rayman Legends, a game we played on March 4th on the Lunch Zone with Nathan, Thomas, Janelle, David, Krista-Lee, Erik, and me (Laya). It was a good day. It was David’s first stream,… Continue Reading
Just a little background: I’m new to the group and I’ve only been part of three Lunch Zones at this point. So I won’t be talking about streaming as part of Serious Play, but rather about me and my friends… Continue Reading
In this midst of this quarantine, I’ve decided to turn back to my gaming roots, so to speak. I’ve been craving a good hyper-realistic shooter recently because, for me, the (broad and largely undefined/unexamined) genre has significant nostalgic value. For… Continue Reading
In January for The Arena I challenged myself to play Celeste (2018) as fast as I could. I had just finished the game for the first time at the end of December and was looking for a game to speedrun,… Continue Reading