Video games are too long
I made the mistake of looking up how much time I had left in the video game Alien Isolation.
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Category: Video Games
It’s a dirty job.
The heroes are gone, leaving a mess of blood and alien body parts. The video game Viscera Cleanup Detail has hired me to get things back into shape.
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The exquisite corpse of Cragne Manor
Over 80 authors, including myself, joined in a massive project in tribute to the 10th anniversary of Anchorhead, a seminal work of interactive fiction.
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Irredeemable Rogue
The legendary creators of the Quest for Glory series of games returned to make Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, a game that borrows much from that seminal series.
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IFComp 2018!
The IFComp is back! The interactive fiction competition for 2018 has launched and I’m trying once again to follow along.
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Retreating to primal wilderness.
Armed with a new, gaming-ready laptop, I could finally play the gorgeous interactive narrative game, Firewatch.
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I actually finished a fairly new game.
I just finished THIMBLEWEED PARK, the new adventure game from the makers of MANIAC MANSION, the game that probably kept my local video store afloat.
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Doodling Vignettes
The release of the HIDDEN FOLKS game took me on a whirlwind nostalgia tour of Where’s Waldo, Richard Scarry, and more. It’s a cute little game.
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I’m keeping a list
I’m supremely jealous of BLACKBOX, a puzzle game on iOS. It uses every sensor in your phone to maximum effect for some ingenious puzzles. I wish I had thought of it first.
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The Nightmare Of My Youth
A twisted tribute to the early works of Sierra-Online STAIR QUEST is an adventure game created by monsters. I reviewed it.
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