News by Matt S. Jennifer Schneidereit has been a part of the development teams behind some of the nichest of Japanese games, and then the most casual of western projects. In a career that has taken her to both Japan and the UK, Schneidereit has worked for Acquire in Japan…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. As our regular readers would know by now, last week we launched a Kickstarter to fund the production of a book on the topic of games as art. And core to that book will be interviews with some of the games industry’s most prominent artistic game developers. With…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. As our regular readers would know by now, last week we launched a Kickstarter to fund the production of a book on the topic of games as art. And core to that book will be interviews with some of the games industry’s most prominent artistic game developers. With…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Playdek is best known for its digital board games and the occasional weird card game. So you can imagine my surprise when it took to Kickstarter for a truly ambitious project – a full-fledged RPG, featuring the involvement of Yasumi Matsuno, no less! I was surprised,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Swedish independent developer, Nifflas, is perhaps best known for his work on the superb, serene, puzzle platformer, Knytt Underground. That game is filled with a unique (and quite Scandinavian) understanding of spirituality, and the result is one of the most unique and striking games you’ll ever…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. As our regular readers would know by now, last week we launched a Kickstarter to fund the production of a book on the topic of games as art. And core to that book will be interviews with some of the games industry’s most prominent artistic game developers. With…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. As our regular readers would know by now, last week we launched a Kickstarter to fund the production of a book on the topic of games as art. And core to that book will be interviews with some of the games industry’s most prominent artistic game…
Read MoreHi everyone, Through the course of the Kickstarter I’ll be leaving writing regular updates on new developers that have come on board to be interviewed, and so forth. Today we’ve got an exciting announcement of a new developer who has agreed to participate in the interviews. Like Steampunk? Like digging?…
Read MoreHi everyone! We’re now two days into our Kickstarter, and it’s been a decent start so far; we’ve raised just shy of $2,500! Click here to be taken to the Kickstarter page. With that said, we’ve got a long way to go if we’re going to be able to raise…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Jonathan Jones over at The Guardian has held the attitude for quite some time that games are not art. He’s argued it in the past, and after receiving a PlayStation 3 and, apparently, Tomb Raider, he’s maintaining that argument. I found it somewhat amusing that he…
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