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A horrible map projection
It’s well known that the Mercator projection makes a certain kind of navigation easy: Follow a compass at a constant bearing, and the map shows you where you’ll end up. The problem with the Mercator projection is that the north and south poles end up grossly exaggerated. I want to solve this problem with a…
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Adorable hole-in-the-wall
This hole in the wall doesn’t have a finished floor, but it does have a furnace that loudly erupts sporadically when one of the other 13 apartments in the complex needs heating. For about $1200/mo, you can be the lucky renter who gets this unit. Located about 3 miles from the nearest public transit hub,…
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Midnight Tinder
Midnight Tinder is a game about frustrating the player in hopes that if you get rejected enough, humiliated enough, then your sunk-cost fallacy addled brain will think that the ends justified the means you were put through. It’s a dating sim where each and every character is flaky and flawed beyond belief. I give Midnight…
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Peas Demand Peace
CW for police brutality and violence. It’s like a game of blob tag. As you move your blob through city streets, parks, and plazas, the peas you contact join the mass movement.
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I Killed My Husband
Like Tetris, you are destined to lose I Killed My Husband. It is an exercise in lasting as long as you can before all the bricks you stacked become the obstacles that led to your demise.
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Glory Glory
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to have propaganda blasted straight into your retina? I do. Oooh, I do.
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12 Steps a Man
Now despite the gender essentializing title, this game is not about “being a manly man” or “Rugged individualism”–well in some ways it is about being a manly man, but we’ll get to that later–instead it’s a journey that explores the fuzzy edges of gender and identity. It’s hard to talk about this game without spoiling…