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New teaser for Where Cards Fall doesn’t show much, but it’s enough

Toronto-based app developer Snowman has been having a delightful amount of success lately. Its endless runner (endless snowboarder?) Alto’s Adventure (2015) is a lighthearted, beautiful game that seemed to take great joy in doing backflips over towering mountains. Its popularity was as much due to the love and care given to the art as to the air tricks you could perform, and it would be reasonable to expect that a follow-up would share at least some of those traits. It’s surprising, then, that Snowman is preparing to do an about-turn towards melancholy with the new game Where Cards Fall. a “bittersweet memory…
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Where Cards Fall to be a wistful journey through adolescence

For Sam Rosenthal, the best part of building a house out of cards is the pile it leaves after it falls. “The cards remain intact amidst the disorder, waiting for an architect to make them stand again,” he tells The Verge. It’s in this that Rosenthal sees a metaphor, one that corresponds to his life at the time he was moving to a new city and job, out of his regular comforts—parts of him began to crumble and so he needed to rebuild them. This perspective gave Rosenthal a new approach, perhaps a solution, to a videogame he had started piecing…
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High Scores: The Best Videogames of 2015

Header image and artwork by Caty McCarthy 25. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (Asteroid Base) Neon cuteness belying hardened spacefaring carnage. A manic platformer disguised as a cheerful shoot-em-up. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a lot of things, and all of those things are descending on you at the exact same time. With the evil forces of anti-love surrounding you as you save imprisoned space bunnies, Lovers works best with two players sitting side-by-side, working together against near-impossible odds. An AI-controlled dog or cat can accompany you on your suicide mission, but facing down increasing waves of enemies next to…
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This week’s Playlist pick: Alto’s Adventure

Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. ALTO’S ADVENTURE (iOS)  BY SNOWMAN  As an “extreme sport,” snowboarding is typically afforded coarse adjectives: slicing, shredding, and tearing across the snow. Alto’s Adventure forgoes these gnarly hooks to return the sport to its origins as an elegant ride down nature’s greatest landmarks. You slide down an endless mountain chasing llamas, fleeing your elders, and passing by chilled towns with smoking chimneys, all of it stirred with a Peruvian flavor. Points can be scored and stunts performed, but it’s the heavy orange dusks and moonlit rushes provided by the ever-changing environments and…