A journalist’s adventures in game development
How one writer learned to stop worrying and learn to love the build.
Danielle Riendeau
"Stories about orcs and rape": the man behind Arse Elektronika
A chat with Johannes Grenzfurthner, the brainiest pervert of them all.
At Arse Elektronika, the world’s biggest gaming and sex conference
Opening night at the event that tries to prove brainy, gaming perverts throw the best parties.
All Points Forward
Amid a crisis of portraying women in videogames, Resonance finds a progressive center in Anna, its heroine. The great seceret of writing above gender stereotpyes or misogyny? Write a human. It’s harder than it sounds.
A Chance to Code Is a Chance to Cure
Will videogame design find its next frontier in the dynamically generated particles of Cell: emergence? Danielle Riendeau talks with its creator, Deus Ex writer and science-fiction author Sheldon Pacotti, about his relationship with technology, futurism, and scientific discovery.
Guessing Games
A new iOS game tackles the specter of race one query at a time.
Moral Goods
Videogame design has plenty of Charles Dickenses—but where are all the Jonathan Swifts? Danielle Riendeau speaks with Alex Shwartz, one of the masterminds behind the satirical Smuggle Truck about lampooning American immigration laws—why it caused so much controversy, why so many games shy away from