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Time travel and narratology (99. Life is Strange (2015), 76. Braid (2008))

There needs to be an article on time travel mechanics in gameplay. Braid, Life is Strange and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask all give...

Portal/Portal 2

So, like I said on the Top 10 page, Portal was the first game I ever played that took my breath away with its narrative. The idea is,...

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...

Mario (1981–)

Mario is (all apologies to Zelda, whose time is coming) the quintessential video game. If you ask a random American who doesn't play many...

Drunk Book Reports, Winter 2017

(FYI this post is not at all about games. This is about the books I read this winter when I was too stressed out to play games.) Rejected...

Oiligarchy, proceduralists, and Miguel Sicart

Hot damn, that Miguel Sicart piece "Against Procedurality" rocked my world (http://gamestudies.org/1103/articles/sicart_ap). First,...

Glory to Trumpistan! MLA abstracts

One of my favorite parts of academia is writing up abstracts for conferences 8 months away so you can brainstorm directions you might...

Tomb Raider (2015)

I missed the Tomb Raider phenomenon (well, avoided it) and so missed Lara Croft, from her first release in 1996 with pyramidical breasts,...

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...

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"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.

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