Tag: games
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My FrankenGame of the Year
I liked a lot of games this year, and played far more games than I usually do. Yet, save for review, I didn’t find myself playing a single game a whole lot (blame buying a flat / moving flat / having a baby) and only finished a handful – perhaps only The Banner Saga, Transistor, and Shadows…
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Interview: Bossa Studios' Founder Henrique Olifiers on Surgeon Simulator 2013
This interview was for an Edge Online piece, which was forgotten about many moons ago, in November 2013. It’s an interview with Bossa Studio’s founder Henrique Olifiers.
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Interview with Björn Jeffrey, CEO of Toca Boca
This interview with Toca Boca’s CEO Björn Jeffrey was conducted for a feature for BT.com.
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Le Pied Du Infant
It’s been a while. Back at university, we were the scourge of the common room – by which I mean that we were good for beating people and not much else. And even that only at table football. There was a core of around eight in our year. The socially-awkward, those tempted by easy victories…
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Crusader Kings II: wilful obscurantism as a design ethos
Another ancient article recovered from the corpse of Edge Online. It would have been sad for the Khazars to disappear again… There’s a scene in Groundhog Day where Phil Connors endlessly attempts to save the life of a homeless old duffer. In my games of Crusader Kings II, Isaac of the Khazars has a similarly deterministic…