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Category Archives: Art Tickles

Column on Haywire covering game as artistic and narrative devices.

Art Tickles – Hard Stop, Fresh Start

December 31, 2017by Taylor Hidalgo Leave a comment

Written for Haywire Magazine. This was a tough year. A year that brought a lot of political struggle, a lot of social outcry, a great deal of exhaustion, and not […]

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Art Tickles – Heroic Levels of Wisdom

November 5, 2017by Taylor Hidalgo Leave a comment

Written for Haywire Magazine. Being a freelance writer isn’t something I’m particularly proud of. It’s not difficult work to get into, but it is hard to do well and to […]

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Three characters from Killing Floor 2 armed for combat

Art Tickles – A Sort of Platypus

October 1, 2017by Taylor Hidalgo Leave a comment

Written for Haywire Magazine. It seems like hardly three or four months can go by in gaming circles without the conversation about games writers playing poorly coming up, and despite […]

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Art Tickles – Preserved

August 27, 2017by Taylor Hidalgo Leave a comment

Written for Haywire Magazine. The world ended 210 years ago. Tensions between the world powers in the early 2000s had reached a fever pitch, and the World of Tomorrow was […]

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Art Tickles – Defined by Their Exceptions

July 23, 2017by Taylor Hidalgo Leave a comment

Written for Haywire Magazine. I genuinely and firmly believe that David Cage missed his dream of becoming a film director. With his studio Quantic Dream, he has seemingly spent as […]

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Art Tickles – Boxing Ourselves In

June 18, 2017by Taylor Hidalgo Leave a comment

Written for Haywire Magazine. As the walls tighten, tensions soar, and pretty soon several will die—the situation feels inevitable. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (henceforth PlUnkBat) is a game about both physical and […]

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Art Tickles – Passive Entertainment

May 15, 2017by Taylor Hidalgo Leave a comment

Written for Haywire Magazine. I enjoy the falling action as much as I enjoy the climax. No matter how huge the set pieces or dramatic the final battle, I’ll always […]

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Art Tickles – Dashboards and Darkness

April 9, 2017by Taylor Hidalgo Leave a comment

Written for Haywire Magazine. At various times in my life, I find myself alone in my car, with long expanses of road ahead of and behind me. Many of these […]

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Art Tickles – I Need You, and I Hate You for It

March 5, 2017by Taylor Hidalgo Leave a comment

Written for Haywire Magazine. Regardless of what game I am playing, I am a coin teetering on its edge. If it topples one way, I am a powergaming weasel, buried […]

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Art Tickles – The Missing Points

January 29, 2017by Taylor Hidalgo Leave a comment

Written for Haywire Magazine. There’s something terribly misleading about a full health bar. Particularly following a hard fight, a long exercise in futility and frustration, followed by a frantic escape […]

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