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Today on Kotaku: The Harassment of Women Gamers by YouTube Trolls So: Let’s say, that, hypothetically, I was very skilled at a particular game. Let’s say, that, hypothetically, I wanted to share this with others, so I started up a channel on YouTube with videos. Sooner or later, from me voice, or my screen name,…

Happy 2013! Let’s talk about lucky numbers. Since I was on the road for a lot of the holiday week, I spent a little time with a game I picked up last year for the DS. Amazon had a real good deal one day on the games Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, and 999: Nine Hours,…

Hello – there’s no new essay here today, but I do want to point you in the direction of a few things I’ve written in December… On Waking Mars: “What It’s Like to Play Waking Mars” guest post on Culture RampOn Halo 4 (and Cortana, and the game’s story themes): “The Naked Vulnerability of Halo…

Eventually this post is going to contain some bad language and slurs, because I’m discussing the prevalence of bad language and slurs, so, trigger warning for that. I play games of all types and stripes. Tabletop, console, PC. So my interests have some crossover from all those communities. Every side of gaming seems to have…

There’s a tabletop game that I played in college called Unknown Armies. You might know of it. It’s a game about fantasy and horror that occurs under our noses in the real world. Unknown Armies has, in its setting materials, the concept of Ascension. If someone in the world really internalizes, and symbolizes, a particular archetypal type…

This month, Blogs of the Round Table wants to know: what are our earliest formative experiences in gaming? I have those. One of the earliest games I remember playing was an educational grammar game made for the TI-99 home computer. With a little digging on YouTube, I found the game, and was instantly taken back.…

Final day of the jam! Last update. And of course the game! Fairies Vs. Scaries on FuckThisJam BMO Here’s a semi-final screenshot. The game may be updated in a little bit to get a final sound file in and make some sound volume tweaks, but I’ve hit my deadline at the moment… I scooted some…

I’m now taking a break from game jam updates to talk about another game I released. Game jam updates later today! In previous years I’ve posted IF Comp reviews. This year I was silent on the matter, because I entered the comp. I didn’t do this anonymously – some people do, but since it was…

Hey, man, “tightening up the graphics” is totally a thing. They aren’t that tight yet, but it’s an improvement. I decided the castle to protect at the end of the line needed to look more impressive, so I made a more complex sprite. I switched out the tower-select system with some icons, though I probably…

I started prototyping for the jam on Friday night, took a break Saturday to hit up the Philly IGDA, and then continued again today. I considered using Action Script 3, but in the interest of time and to be sure I have something at the end of the week, I decided to create my Fuck…