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Hideo Kojima, luggage star. Rimowa's new one-minute film follows him from the studio to the street, case in hand, talking about working with performers. killscreen.com/rimowas-new-c…
A print-and-play card game about collecting a fascist's teeth before the cops show up. Donate to the Games Transformed festival and 2084 sends you a copy. killscreen.com/fascist-denti…
Clay figures, a frog-headed tower in a playground, forests drawn in graphite. Hollow Press has two new game books from Brad Hock and Andrea Laperni due by the end of October. killscreen.com/two-new-game-…
A childhood home, rebuilt in pixels that only sharpen when you look closely. Hexin Cai's Out of Focus is a free graduation game from the Bartlett. killscreen.com/hexin-cais-ou…
A reviewer praised the scariest scene in Weapons for playing out in total silence, with no music.
There is music there. The whole scene is scored.
Ryan Holladay wrote it, and says being told nobody noticed is the best compliment he has had. He and Jason Graves on building dread.
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Live at 10am PT today: Space and the Body. A cinematographer and two game makers on how you make a space close in. Come ask them something. Search "Killscreen Space and the Body".
Tue 20 Oct, 10am PT: Space and the Body. I'm talking live with Sophie Winqvist (cinematographer, Aniara), Max Friberg (Eclipsium) and Johanna Kasurinen (Mouthwashing) about how you make a space close in. Free and online. Search "Killscreen Space and the Body"
Tomorrow at 10am PT: Space and the Body, with Sophie Winqvist (cinematographer, Aniara), Max Friberg (Eclipsium) and Johanna Kasurinen (Mouthwashing). Free to join. Search "Killscreen Space and the Body".
In 2010 I asked Mark Essen (@messhof) why he made games that are painful to play. He said he used to get sick making them, then got used to it.
Blood Dungeon, out since August, was mostly animated on a $50 tablet in the car.
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Nikima Jagudajev spent six years staging a high school that never existed, then turned it into a video game. At the opening, one of the performers sat down and played herself.
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Marketers tell developers not to make puzzle games. The reason: streamers don't like being confused on air. That's a bad reason to lose a whole genre.
Episode 36 of the Killscreen podcast, with Danny Snelson: killscreen.com/the-lake-was-…
The Oregon Trail didn't teach a generation history. It taught us how games work. The more you played, the more you were learning the model, not the frontier.
Ep 36, free. $55/yr locked forever, $96 from 31 Dec: killscreen.com/the-lake-was-…
Danny Snelson on episode 36 of the Killscreen podcast: killscreen.com/the-lake-was-…
When a TV character never comes back, you accept it. In games you never do. Maybe you missed something, maybe the devs hid it. Players can't start grieving the choices they made.
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[TUE 13 OCT — cross-post of the Tue 13 Instagram Reel item. Dead 24 Sep due time cleared. X rejects notification scheduling, so this is automatic + draft: the moment you queue it, it WILL self-publish.]
From episode 36 with Danny Snelson: killscreen.com/the-lake-was-…
Holyvoid is a 168-page art book for a game that doesn't exist. Danny Snelson's argument: the game you hallucinate from the book might beat the one they'd have shipped.
Ep 36, free. $55/yr locked forever, $96 from 31 Dec: killscreen.com/the-lake-was-…
Episode 36 of the Killscreen podcast: killscreen.com/the-lake-was-…