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What Does Kickstarter’s Launch in Japan Mean For Games?

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A Look at Kickstarter’s Video Game Projects from Mexico

Dan Miller - November 28, 2016

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Universal Paperclips: Can Manipulative Mechanics Succeed As Commentary?
“Use neuro-resonant frequencies to influence consumer behaviour” I can’t tell you exactly how long I’d been clicking away at Frank Lantz’s browser-based stationery synthesis simulator Universal Paperclips when this box popped up. What had begun as a fairly benign experience suddenly went all Skynet, offering a hint of something infinity+1 more sinister than the minimalist monochrome […]
Five Genius Suggestions For Saving The Fallout Franchise
Fallout 5 rumours have been few and far between this year, but that hasn’t stopped me from shuddering with Super Mutant rage every time I remember what Bethesda did to the once inimitable post- apocalyptic RPG series with Fallout 4. While most of us remember the expansive, non linear quest lines, the agonising moral choices, […]
Life Goals and Dead by Daylight
The wooden-pallet crashes down, stunning my Killer character and giving the Survivors a chance to scatter like scuttling spiders. I mutter and swear as I destroy the barrier, before setting off in hot pursuit of a straggler. He dodges and weaves incredibly well, managing to lose me in a tangle of hay bales and dilapidated […]
Stardew Valley’s Diversity Problem and the Mod I Used to Fix it
Early on in Stardew Valley’s development, longtime fans of farming simulators such as, Harvest Moon and Rune Factory, had a few hopes for the Western take on a genre, long dominated by the hyper heteronormative, mono-racial series that is, Harvest Moon. One of those hopes was that Stardew Valley would be racially diverse. And to […]
Middle-earth: Shadow of War Orc Slavery Highlights LOTR’s History of Racism
As reports and complaints about Middle-earth: Shadow of War‘s loot boxes abound, criticisms of the game’s core content are beginning to do the rounds too. Monolith Productions’ fantasy RPG features ‘orc slavery’ as a key component of the game. Player character Talion (along with Celebrimbor, the wraith that cohabits his body) must bend and break […]

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What Does Kickstarter’s Launch in Japan Mean For Games?

A Look at Kickstarter’s Video Game Projects from Mexico