Rezzed 2018: the trouble with narrative games

Earlier this week, I picked up on the increase in the number of narrative games on display at Rezzed this year. The ‘detective’ theme seemed to be popular also, with several story-rich titles featuring male investigators who were trying to solve some mysterious or vaguely-supernatural case related to either unexplained missing persons or gruesome murders. This was a great thing for me: everyone has their … Continue reading Rezzed 2018: the trouble with narrative games

Kim27 April 201819 April 201812 Comments

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Stories Untold and the joy of text

When I was very young, I loved text adventures. It started off with the Ghost Hunter choose-your-own-adventure by Edward Packard then progressed to games such as Zork. I used to scour our local library for the Usborne type-in books and, even though I never managed to get a single program to run from start to finish on our old Commodore 64, I pored through the … Continue reading Stories Untold and the joy of text

Kim20 November 201716 July 201815 Comments

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Conversation and critique: CAYNE

nufafitc has been on the blogging scene for seven years now and so it’s highly likely you’ve already come across his Emotional Multimedia Ride site. This lovely guy has been publishing regular articles since August 2010 and his blog is a ‘coaster ride’ of whatever piques his interest in media and even beyond the small or bigger screen. I think I may have found someone … Continue reading Conversation and critique: CAYNE

Kim27 October 201724 November 20173 Comments

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EGX 2017: Lake Ridden

As I written before, I’m bad at playing horror games because I’m a bit of a wimp. I’d much rather watch someone handle the controller while my eyes are half-shielded by my hands or a nearby cushion. I really enjoy a spine-tingling storyline and love books by Stephen King or Dean Koontz for example; but when I’m responsible for taking the actions, I fall to … Continue reading EGX 2017: Lake Ridden

Kim29 September 201730 September 20177 Comments

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Stranger adventures

I don’t watch an awful lot of television: it’s rare that a show captures my attention enough to make me want to watch it and I’d rather play a video game in my spare time. But every now and again one comes along that changes that and this is exactly what happened when Stranger Things was released on Netflix last summer. My other-half and I … Continue reading Stranger adventures

Kim16 August 201717 August 20176 Comments

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Resident Evil 7: ‘fleshing’ out a story

This year’s Steam summer sale kicked off on 22 June 2017 and ended a couple of weeks ago on 05 July 2017. There’s a while to wait until the next one at the end of October which means we’ve got several months to work our way through the new titles we picked up (or leave them languishing in our backlogs). I bought 13 games myself … Continue reading Resident Evil 7: ‘fleshing’ out a story

Kim17 July 20178 July 20176 Comments

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Rezzed 2018: the trouble with narrative games

Stories Untold and the joy of text

Conversation and critique: CAYNE

EGX 2017: Lake Ridden

Stranger adventures

Resident Evil 7: ‘fleshing’ out a story