The Early Access survival/base building genre seems to have a pretty well trodden path these days. You start off with the base game and then release chapters/technology tiers/any other progression…
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David Klemke
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There’s an unspoken genre of games I like to think of as “Having a Lark with your Mates”. These are games that, played by yourself, are usually pretty dull affairs,…
David Klemke
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It used to be that you really had to get off the beaten track to find experiences that called into question what a “game” really was. Interactivity is definitely key,…
David Klemke
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It’s always fun to think about the genesis of the story and mechanics of a game. Quite often they’re rooted in reality in some way; the stories typically being allegories…
David Klemke
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It always takes a little bit of time for the big releases of the year to start ramping up. No one wants to release around the holiday period as you’re…
David Klemke
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Sometimes you don’t want all the bells and whistles that many games seek to deliver. I’m very much a fan of games that seek to pare down the experience down…
David Klemke
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You’d think with the ever increasing number of games released that I’d be flooded with titles that I was eager to play. It’s not the case unfortunately as a good…
David Klemke
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The end of last year was just a deluge of games I wanted to play and so many got left by the wayside. I’m catching up on a lot of…
David Klemke
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There are certain things I look to as indicators of a game’s overall quality without having to, you know, play the entire thing end to end. One thing that has…
David Klemke
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I’m starting to like the idea of proof of concept games over things like Early Access and I’ll tell you why. Early Access has basically become a genre unto itself;…