Posts tagged with Games
Review: Death by Video Game
Video games, as an expressive medium, has always inspired other forms of media. From music concerts to massive online forums to dedicated video streaming sites, there are many vibrant communities of gamers whose passion for games transcends the game itself.…
The Persistence of Printed Books
I guess not everybody shares in my enjoyment of the Kindle and the movement towards digital books. The New York Times reported that the sales of e-books has actually slipped in 2015 from the year prior, and that readers…
Cards in Computing Interfaces
We relegated skeuomorphism to yesterday’s design fashion. It’s a tool that was supposed to be largely unnecessary , now that users fully understand purely digital interfaces. The remaining use case for realistic analogies in computing is as cues to…
Musical Rhythm Games are Motivational
I’ve enjoyed a lot of music games over the years. Before we had Guitar Hero and Rock Band in the US, there was already an established genre of rhythm games, largely made and played in Asia. They centered around…
Review: Evo Moment 37
Fighting games are a pretty old-school genre. As far as I can tell, they became massively popular back in the dimly-lit arcades of the 90s, the ultimate culmination of one-on-one battles between players. It took a…
The Comfort of an Simple, Enjoyable Routine
Every year, I go out and buy a copy of the latest NBA 2K video game. Every year, I start and finish a season of basketball with a team, usually going through the full 82-game season schedule, playing pretty…
