Secondtruth Blog Archives
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Writing about Writing Game Reviews
I was fortunate enough to have a review that I wrote, the Dragon’s Crown review on Tap-Repeatedly, get high praise semi-recently on Quarter to Three from Tom Chick. I admire his review style and candor a lot so this was a real achievement for me. He said he wished he saw more game reviews written…
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On Gone Home
I was excited about Gone Home, the environmental exploration game, when I heard about the premise, and since it’s a fairly short game that isn’t challenging in the traditional sense, I was able to block out some time to play it. It seems there are a lot of blog entries going up about this game…
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About That Last of Us Ending
Finished it on Sunday. All the spoilers for the ending of The Last of Us. Below the jump. Apparently that was controversial? Apparently lots of people didn’t like it? That was not at all my experience. When the Fireflies at the end said “we have to cut her brain open,” my husband was sitting next to…
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Now Playing: The Last of Us
Spoilers, I guess. Nothing terribly non-obvious given the marketing, but be warned. It occurred to me that lately, any time a non-gamer asks what game I’m playing right now, I answer The Last of Us. This isn’t untrue, though it’s one of many games I’m playing. But irrespective of this truth, or the fact that…
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IGDA Summit
Just a note to officially announce here that I am speaking at the IGDA Summit: http://www.igda.org/summit/speakers/ Scope that awesome speaker lineup! I’m doing a talk focused on student issues for those who are still nervous about “breaking in” (or those considering becoming a game dev student, or those without a degree that might feel nervous…
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On the Disconnect Between Violence and Narrative in Any Game That Doesn’t Star Deadpool
Game critics, you only need the first paragraph of my Deadpool review. http://tap-repeatedly.com/2013/07/review-deadpool/ I am Serious Game Critic; this are Serious Part of Games Critical Canon.
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If I’m Going to Stare At An Ass…
I’m enjoying the Neverwinter MMO and I have posted my full impressions/launch review over at Tap-Repeatedly. The other night when I was wandering in a zone I saw some players on the area chat discussing the ever-popular question of who was what gender in real life. Are all the female avatars here really girls? I was,…
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The feed from Gotland
A YouTube has been set up showing the talks from the Gotland Game Conference! Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-uLI3C6lyvSvXmwnk1aGXS8qU-HTnxXN Some great talks today from Sara Lempiänen and Tobias S from Stardoll, Tom Abernathy from Microsoft, Heidi McDonald from Schell, and Will Bonner from Yeti CGI. My talk should go up there sometime tomorrow (after I give…
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Let’s Plays
I have a new post on Tap-Repeatedly about Let’s Plays: http://tap-repeatedly.com/2013/05/lets-watch-lets-plays/
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GameSprout is in Beta
We went live yesterday with the new site, and I’m really excited! Check out what we’ve been working on at http://www.gamesprout.com The goal: transparent crowd-sourced game design. I’m excited about the possibility of hearing from some new voices and helping people to refine their game ideas into something tangible. Regular blogging will resume… probably after…
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