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The Kafkaesque Beginner's Guide

*Huge spoilers for Davey Wreden's The Beginner's Guide (2015) and also a lot of Kafka stories (but, come on, it's been like a hundred...

Meow Wolf and archival adventuring

I was recently in Albuquerque for a wedding (yay Liz and Tyler!) and was thrilled to be able to check out The House of Eternal Return,...

Human Resource Machine and World of Goo

So I played World of Goo, a delightful physics puzzle game (which the creators describe as a game version of Hooke's Law), and then a...

61.Half-Life 2 (2004)

So I don’t have any kind of moral problem with Half-Life 2, or with First Person Shooters in general. There’s no evidence that in-game...

Stardew Valley

Gahhh I hate timers counting down. It’s so stressful that I only have 10 real-time minutes to take care of everything that must be done...

The art of losing

Note from May, 2017: well obviously I should be integrating Jesper Juul and Jack Halberstam into this post and talking about how failure...

80. Super Meat Boy (2010, Team Meat)

I have a lot of trouble with the simplest game mechanics. I can only solve a puzzle if you tell me it's a puzzle. The difficult buy-in...

"Strafing" means stepping sideways rather than forward or backwards, usually in the context of a FPS. By hiding behind a barrier and then strafing while shooting, you can come out guns blazing and not lose time walking out, turning, and firing. Save time, don't die, strafe strafe strafe.

Strafe Strafe Strafe

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Melissa Kagen

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