Placing faith in The Last Cargo’s atheist allegory
Life beyond the altar.
Horror
How Among the Sleep hopes to take survival horror back to its roots
The power of powerlessness.
The Yellow Wallpaper lets you, too, shatter the domestic sphere
From the crucible of another game jam—this time it’s the Public Domain Jam—an adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” has emerged [play here]. Famous for its visceral depiction of obsessive behavior (H.P. Lovecraft was a noted fan) as much as its social subtext, “
Horror games should be intentionally un-fun, says horror game designer
Videogames are stuffed to the brim with “fun” little feedback loops, like level-maxing and crossbow upgrades and loot-a-thons. But according to Thomas Grip, author of some of the most hair-raising horror games around, such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the anticipated SOMA, those delicious system