Indie Games Reviews 42 – 04/30/2024

Restart by JesseAidyn – https://jesseaidyn.itch.io/restart  This poetic experience offers a sumptuous world to explore and unravel – the hints hiding in the verses of a poem. This game is part of Jesse Aidyn’s more extensive research in logical contradictions, but I dare say it also explores sensorial and affective contradictions, offering magical and horrifying surprises. It’s […]

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Indie Games Reviews 41 – 02/25/2024

Last Seen Online by qwook – https:// https://qwook.itch.io/last-seen-online This effective retro-OS puzzle game perfectly invoked the specific dread of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s brand of horror. The naivete of teenage angst doesn’t prevent eternal cyberlamentations. Perfect World by phasein – https://phasein.itch.io/perfect-world Another brilliant title by phasein, this time tackling capitalism and the Anthropocene. It’s an excellent and satisfying […]

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Indie Games Reviews 40 – 01/19/2024

Buckshot Roulette by Mike Klubnika – https://mikeklubnika.itch.io/buckshot-roulette Super inventive take on Russian Roulette. Take 13 Tzametzi and set it into a Soviet uchronia with the underlying dread that God is against you. Mike Klubnika proves he is not only the master of intricate mechanized puzzle games but also of the horror of chance and zero-sum games […]

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Exégèse – La chorégraphie des mouches amplifie le désir du néant

La chorégraphie des mouches amplifie le désir du néant a été conçu dans le cadre du séminaire doctoral «Avec l’autre qu’humain: coprésences et pratiques attentionnelles en art» donné à l’Université du Québec à Montréal à l’automne 2023. L’expérience interactive était accompagnée d’un retour réflexif où je décrit la genèse, les assises théoriques et le processus […]

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Grapefruit and Fly Vision (New Games)

Grapefruit: The Video Game VIDEO GAME PIECE Download a game with a cryptic description. Start it. Keep playing until you faint. (a) Keep playing until you die. (b) Winter 2022 Music and game design: Frédérick Maheux (www.frederickmaheux.com) Visual design : Nadia Seraiocco (www.cheznadia.com)     The flies’ choreography amplifies my longing for the void. (Drawing […]

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