Category Archives: Game studies
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 […]
Continue readingExégèse – 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 […]
Continue readingGrapefruit 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 […]
Continue readingIndie Games Reviews 39 – 12/18/2023
Liam’s Adventure by SeriousDaniel – https://danieloschepkov.itch.io/liams-adventures A distressing experience of retrogaming innocence and analog evil. The game unsettled me nearly as much as the film Spoorloos (1988) – highly recommended if you never saw it – tearing apart between the need to know and the awareness of what’s to be learned is entirely negative. Rising […]
Continue readingIndie Games Reviews 38 – 11/11/2023
Mr. Lupin by Capybaraforge – https://capybaraforge.itch.io/mr-lupin It’s a weird mix of non-sensical humor and creepypasta through deformed entities. Every ending offers wonderfully mesmerizing deviations, some plunging into no-holds-barred innocence corruption. Chango by PuKo – https://pukogames.itch.io/chango It’s Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber, but it’s a grocery cart this time—a Janky and delirious game design for feverish days. Something […]
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