Pain is Temporary; Quitting Lasts Forever
The American dream and The Swindle. Winners and losers in Donald Trump’s America. Videogames reinforce the American Dream: that hard work eventually equals success
Spelunky
Below’s creative director on procedural generation, making soup, and spelunking
“Delicate and small and precious but also complex and deep and crazy and brutal and dark and awful.”
How do you bring the magic of Spelunky to 3D architecture?
Mark Johns is chasing a ghost. This is what he tells me. It’s not quite the truth. The spectral quality of this “ghost” isn’t immateriality; interfacing with it isn’t a problem, Johns has done that thousands of times. The hard bit, and the bit he’s after, is understanding it. The ghost is actually S
The Binding of Isaac: A Postmortem
With the upcoming release of Rebirth, a look back on Edmund McMillen’s Freudian nightmare.
Risk of Rain combines the bad action and bad RPG genres
Slight chance of boredom.