Prom Week
Prom Week is the creation of a group at UC Santa Cruz that includes Michael Matteas, one of the people involved with the creation of Facade. Like Facade, Prom Week is an attempt to create interactive...
View ArticleDreams of Your Life
Dreams of Your Life is not so much a game as a sort of conversational meditation on the subject of life, death, and love. Writing this, I realize how dreary it sounds; but actually, it's quite...
View ArticleAnalogue, A Hate Story
Created by the designer of Digital: A Love Story, Analogue: A Hate Story is a sequel in the sense that it uses essentially the same dynamic, but thematically quite different. It is also, in some ways,...
View ArticleCart Life
Cart Life bills itself as a "retail simulation," and a priori, you may expect it to be a conventional sim/tycoon style game in which you buy merchandise, set prices, and consider your profit your score...
View ArticleBotanicula
Botanicula is another point-and-click graphic adventure from Amanita Design, the creators of Samorost and Machinarium. Like those games, it's in the tradition of Czech animation, with beautiful...
View ArticleGorogoa
Gorogoa is a beautiful game, but one difficult to describe. Carried in hand-drawn illustration with the feel of Czech animation, and set mainly in an Italianate city, the game follows a boy who is...
View ArticleQasir al-Wasat: A Night Inbetween
Qasit al-Wasat is a 2D overhead stealth action game set in a palace out of the Arabian Nights. You play as an invisible demon, summoned by a sorcerer to slay three people in the palace, with the...
View ArticleThe Stanley Parable
The Stanley Parable begins with an in-engine cut scene set of a man in a dingy office. A narrator explains that this is Stanley, who loves his job, even though as described it sounds quite tedious....
View ArticleArmada d6
Armada d6 is a space war boardgame by Eric Zimmerman and John Sharp. Emulation is not only for software. Since Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 was released under the Open Game License as the d20 system,...
View ArticlePOP Methodology Experiment One
POP: Methodology Experiment One is a "methodology experiment," because Rob Lach created the music first -- and then designed a minigame for each song intended to fit the emotional feel and impulse of...
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