A game’s controls being deliberately obtuse or unintuitive used to be a sign of a poorly designed game. Indeed the whole reason I avoid certain genres, survival horror being one…
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David Klemke
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The Battlefield series has, for the most part, stuck to its roots of giant war-based combat which has served it well over the past 13 years that it has existed….
David Klemke
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Puzzle-platformers are the corridor shooter of the indie scene; they are the genre that nearly everyone attempts in their quest to become the next big thing. This means that, for…
David Klemke
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Ever since we (sort of) won the battle for a R18+ rating for games us adult gamers have been hoping that the games, which are clearly not for children, would make…
David Klemke
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Ever since games realised that they were no longer beholden to the Euclidean world we exist in the number of games based around messing with that idea has increased exponentially….
David Klemke
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There are some genres in which few dare to tread for fear of being crushed by the long reigning champion. For city building games there was really no comparison to…
David Klemke
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Trawling through the weekly releases can be something of an eye opener. There’s often a bevy of shovelware titles on there that I’m sure no one is proud of, a…
David Klemke
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It’s been a while between drinks for DirectX with the latest release, 11, coming out some 6 years ago . This can be partly attributed to the consolization of PC…
David Klemke
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Puzzlers are something of a mainstay of the indie community thanks to their relative simplicity and large amount of creative freedom they offer the developer. That being said it means…
David Klemke
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I remember when I was a doe eyed teenager thinking that it would be great to make games (I know better now, of course) if I could only afford the…