Posts tagged with Games
Basking in their First Finished Game
The game was Pikuniku. It's a pretty silly indie game. The art style is simple to the point where it feels like it was drawn by kindergarteners; the gameplay is loose and forgiving; and the story and dialogue…
The Exercise RPG
It was an accidental, but masterful timing when Nintendo released their new fitness game, Ring Fit Adventure , last October. It was initially received as another quirky game from the company, one that took advantage of the portability of the Switch&…
Conformity in User Interfaces
I've been an NBA 2K player for upwards of 2 decades now. As is the case with popular video game sports franchises, the series releases a new game every year right before the season starts[1], with updated…
The Feedback Loop of Rhythm Games
About 15 years ago, giant boxes of peripherals stacked the shelves of gaming retail stores, filled with plastic guitars and copies of the then-experimental Guitar Hero games. At the time, the genre was fresh and exciting, and music games…
Games as a Service
When the Bay Area shelter-in-place order started, there was plenty of online snark about the triviality of the policy: the oncoming pandemic threatened to reshape the world as disruptively as a global war or a historic depressionary market…
Games are Getting Cheap Faster
Console and PC video game releases and launch dates roughly follow annual retail sales patterns: they start the year at a brisk pace, slow down in the summer months, and then surge for the fall and winter holiday seasons. Of…
