What We Did asks you to sympathize with the criminal’s plight
Pippin Barr’s latest game puts you on the wrong side of a Carmen Sandiego chase.
Pippin Barr’s latest game puts you on the wrong side of a Carmen Sandiego chase.
How Do You Do It? is a quick game about one of those precious formative moments, when as a child, you realized that there was such a thing called sex that people did to each other, and though you were uncertain about the specifics, you undressed two dolls and tried to get them to do it. (Full discclosure: it was made by a team including our former intern, Nina Freeman. Sup, Nina.) In my case it was He-Man in a loincloth and Ariel from Little Mermaid with her velcro tail taken off. The game character’s dolls look like a traditional…
“Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom,” the theologian Søren Kierkegaard famously wrote in his philosophical work The Concept of Anxiety. What he meant was this: because we are autonomous beings, having the ability to think for ourselves, we are prone to worrying over the choices we make. You could say that once you start thinking about anxiety, you already have a problem. It follows that the creator of Crush, a browser game that illustrates the overpowering effects of anxiety, is personally familiar with the disorder herself. – – – Created during Global Game Jam 2013, Crush is a short, abstract…