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Sunless Sea

Review

Sunless Sea

This mini-review is a contribution to Felipe Pepe's crowd-sourced CRPG Book Project. The dark and the ocean. Sunless Sea’s title contains the most potent metaphors for the unknown, and it very much hinges upon the two reactions that the unknown elicits: fear and curiosity. As a captain

14 Mar 2016
The Witness: The Magic of Form and Perspective

Musings

The Witness: The Magic of Form and Perspective

I’m a terrible puzzle game player; not in the sense that I’m rubbish at them (though sometimes that’s true too) but that I simply don’t care enough. When a solution eludes me for more than half an hour or so, I either give up entirely, or

05 Mar 2016
The Literary Labyrinths of Planescape: Torment

Literature

The Literary Labyrinths of Planescape: Torment

What can change the nature of a man? Black Isle’s Planescape: Torment may not have changed my nature, but it certainly has radically changed my perspective on what games can do, and on the potential of writing in games. When I first played it in the wake of my

24 Feb 2016
Pony Island: Ghosts in the Machine

Review

Pony Island: Ghosts in the Machine

We’ve all experienced that moment when we were sure that our computer is part of a demonic plot to drive us insane. It must be the ghost in the machine, the inexplicable life of a computer that is dead-set to be our enemy. Even in a cease-fire, this devil

16 Feb 2016
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