Author: Taylor Hidalgo
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Buy Hype, Sell Low
Written for XPGain, recreated with permission. Gamer attention is practically a force all on its own. A giant, slobbering, gibbering monster that crashes into storefronts and servers and consumes with the rabid single-mindedness that can’t help but draw parallels to zombie apocalypses or global epidemics. The kind of rabid fascination humans have with consumerism is,…
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Art Tickles – Small World After All
They’ll sit in the same spot, smoking or pantomiming discussion until you leave line of sight.
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Art Tickles – Swings and Roundabouts
A player is only as free to resolve conflicts as the scale of a game allows.
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Art Tickles – The Make of a Monster
We celebrate those, as monstrous as they can be, so long as they’re aimed in the right direction.
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Art Tickles – Of Doing and Being
Her manner is constant, her body language unyielding, moving from room to room suppressing threats.
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Art Tickles – Left Unsaid
A constructed world has so many unanswered questions in the cracks, in the spaces between the narrative and the gameplay.
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Art Tickles – Simple Pleasures
There is a bit of hidden magic in the most basic structures and mechanics of a game.
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Art Tickles – Emotional Latency
It was interesting that the human character was so much more machinelike than her mechanical foil.
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Art Tickles – Players and Their Stories
The paths on which games are built are often just straight roads.
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Art Tickles – The Story Mechanic
There’s something endearing about storytelling coming from player action rather than scripted reaction.
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Art Tickles – What Lay in the Dark
Humans, at their core, aren’t really afraid of the dark. It’s what’s in the darkness that scares us.
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Art Tickles – Sacrificing Media For Its Message
Without at least a sense of empathy toward the conflict and its characters, a game has failed its medium on a fundamental level.