Since I’ve been writing about game design and the amateur mafia community I’ve been playing with, I’ve noticed more and more how little information there is, in an academic sense, on the processes of game design. A colleague recently came to me for suggestions on behalf of one of her students […]
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Last night I found myself browsing Steam demos, as I often do. Every couple of months I’ll find one or two that catch my eye, but more often than not, I scroll through the list and discover there’s nothing that particularly sparks my interest. More exciting is the occasional demo I get […]
I write and talk and think a lot about gender representation in toys, games, and just in general media and the world around me. My aim and hope is to show the places where gender representation is missing or problematic. When I think about girls having access to and playing […]
Back in 2013, Maddie Myers wrote about what it costs to be a “real” gamer, and when she referenced it recently, we couldn’t help but look around at our own costs of the work we do for this unfunded, volunteer-only site. The harsh reality of games criticism—or, as Myers puts […]