You really have to marvel at the thought process of developers who make games in the frustration genre. I’m sure a healthy portion of it is done “for the memes”…
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David Klemke
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I’ve found myself stumbling across a lot more work from game developer students of late and I have to say I’m continually impressed at the work they’re putting out. To…
David Klemke
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Games that play with colour, whether it be from the basic idea of restoring it to your world (ala Gris) or the more advanced mechanical based ones like Antichamber, have…
David Klemke
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It’s that time of year again when the big name publishers start dumping title after title on us in an unrelenting wave until the end of the year. In the…
David Klemke
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Portal is mostly remembered for its mechanics, and rightly so given how revolutionary they were at the time, but its storytelling was just as influential. Nearly all of the games…
David Klemke
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One of the many reasons I keep doing these reviews is that I enjoy charting the journeys of the various developers that I come across, especially the smaller indies. For…
David Klemke
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Yeah I know, I have a type. Take some kind of high concept, wrap it in an intriguing art style, throw in a few interesting puzzle mechanics and back the…
David Klemke
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I am…truly at a loss to set the scene on this one. In my regular dive through the dumpster that is the Steam new releases page I came across KIDS…
David Klemke
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Sometimes I just want to play something dumb. That’s partly the reason I keep playing Call of Duty; it’s the definition of “turn off your brain” kind of entertainment. But…
David Klemke
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Games built by students are, for the most part, completely terrible. Many of my friends went into game development courses and the games they developed as part of them were…