There’s a lot to be said for games that hone in on a core game play idea and ruthlessly pursue that without the additional cruft that seems to plague every…
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David Klemke
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Retro shooters (which I’ve recently found out are now, somewhat ironically, called Boomer Shooters) and I don’t have the greatest history together. The improvements that have been made in the…
David Klemke
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It’s the early 90’s and we’re on a family trip down to the coast for a weekend away. We’d stay in one of the on-site tents, large enough to fit…
David Klemke
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The Witness stands out for many reasons but chief among them, for me at least, was the idea that a meticulously crafted game could still fail at its prime directive:…
David Klemke
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I’ve had (and still do, for reasons that’ll become self evident) an itch to play a good city builder for sometime. There’s been a few decent candidates that have been…
David Klemke
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Oh boy, I thought I knew what it was like to be short on time, but the last month has shown me what it is truly to have zero time…
David Klemke
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The speed at which games can now spawn new genres and imitators is surprising, even to this long time gamer who’s seen dozens of trends come and go. The latest…
David Klemke
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Every so often I stumble across a game that feels like it came from a previous era. Sometimes this is a conscious choice, driven by a desire to evoke the…
David Klemke
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You ever do any of those tests where they put say 4 shapes in front of you and ask you to pick the odd one out? It’s a simple enough…
David Klemke
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I have this feeling that all gamers, at one point or another, have lusted after the dream of a fully destructible world: one where there’s absolutely no limits to the…