There’s a pattern I’ve seen in myself over the last couple years: I don’t do well with games without hard goals. I feel like I’ve always known this somewhat intrinsically…
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David Klemke
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If the 2010s gaming scene was shaped by the challenging, git gud scrub titles of FromSoftware and their ilk then the rise of the cozy genre in the 2020s feels…
David Klemke
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Factory building games all have a pretty standard template. There a resource to extract, processes to put it through until finally you offload it somehow until you do that enough…
David Klemke
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Maybe I was hungry when I stumbled across I Can Only Speak Doner as it’s not the kind of game you’d usually see me gravitating to. It’s also possible that…
David Klemke
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There’s a running joke that IT admins are among the laziest bunch of workers you’ll find out there but, conversely, that’s actually what you want from them. If they can…
David Klemke
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Sometimes I get ahead of myself, wanting to preserve as much of the going-in-blind experience so I don’t build up expectations about the experience. Most of the time it works,…
David Klemke
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There’s a trap that indie developers often fall into: the one of game length. The trap is laid by that demon which has been haunting the game’s industry for years…
David Klemke
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It’s late at night and you’ve been out with your friends, regaling each other with stories of the past and just generally enjoying each others company. Then your friend, that…
David Klemke
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Over the years I’ve noticed trends in sequel games. For AAA’s and similar high budget titles there’s a tendency to streamline things, to focus more in on what made the…
David Klemke
4 Min Read
You would honestly be surprised at the level of development there’s been on the Playdate. After the numerous failures of niche appeal consoles to gain any kind of traction the…
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