Rampant Games

JULY 13, 2022

It is an indie offering, so like most things VR, it is the indies who are blazing the trail. The game that should make you feel like a badass adventurer in a fantasy world ends up making you feel like a mute klutz wearing oversized mittens. Hopefully that’ll be fixed this week. That’s fine. The three Fs.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 9, 2024

A lot of people don't want sandboxes. Subscribe now Spiderweb Software creates turn-based, indie, old-school fantasy role-playing games. Minecraft is a strangely lovely thing to immerse yourself in, and it has no coherent story at all. People keep telling stories in games. When they enter a game, they want a finite experience.

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Writing Games Art Advertising 90

Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

In video games, we call this a sandbox -- a simulation that is less about "winning", and more about playing with systems that may or may not reflect your values. When cool European indie artists do it, I can abide it, but if I do it, I just feel too smug. Capitalism, ideology, critical race theory, anything really.

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