Comments on: Grief, memory, and a video game https://idlermag.com/2010/11/11/1708/ A U.S. Webzine: 2010-2013 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:56:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: just enough is more https://idlermag.com/2010/11/11/1708/#comment-2292 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:56:41 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=1708#comment-2292 […] This game is quietly brilliant. The developers realized the best way to communicate the times and trials of the modern octopus was to make the man behind the mouse frustrated through the mouse. (All I wanted to do was walk to the kitchen without arousing suspicion!) It’s another case of the game mechanic perfectly fitting the narrative which, as you know, is what I think makes for a worthwhile game. […]

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By: just enough is more https://idlermag.com/2010/11/11/1708/#comment-1086 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:37:20 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=1708#comment-1086 […] (This was orginally published over at The Idler.) […]

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By: A day in the life « The Idler https://idlermag.com/2010/11/11/1708/#comment-636 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:02:04 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=1708#comment-636 […] This game is quietly brilliant. The developers realized the best way to communicate the times and trials of the modern octopus was to make the man behind the mouse frustrated through the mouse. (All I wanted to do was walk to the kitchen without arousing suspicion!) It’s another case of the game mechanic perfectly fitting the narrative which, as you know, is what I think makes for a worthwhile game. […]

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By: Anti-Expertism - fallible, contexual, and limited knowledge https://idlermag.com/2010/11/11/1708/#comment-573 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:30:00 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=1708#comment-573 […] Grief, Memory, and a Video Game […]

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By: Andrew Simone https://idlermag.com/2010/11/11/1708/#comment-512 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:56:29 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=1708#comment-512 Awesome. My first party member is a crow.

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By: Andrew Simone https://idlermag.com/2010/11/11/1708/#comment-511 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:46:50 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=1708#comment-511 In reply to Angela Vasquez-Giroux.

Mission accomplished.

My goal is simply to make people who think video games suck to think that only most video games suck. Same goes for art, books, film (did you know that absolutely fantastic anime really exists?). Unfortunately, the journalist and marketing machines often obscure them. But we knew this, didn’t we?

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By: Angela Vasquez-Giroux https://idlermag.com/2010/11/11/1708/#comment-510 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:35:27 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=1708#comment-510 I don’t play video games. This makes me want to play a video game.

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By: grief, memory, and a video game | clusterflock https://idlermag.com/2010/11/11/1708/#comment-507 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:53:17 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=1708#comment-507 […] will be writing on video games every other week over at The Idler. My first piece is on a French RPG about bereavement, Winter Voices. Three thoughts about my […]

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