Category: Portfolio
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Wild Buster Preview – A Violent, Alien Landscape
It’s all in ruins. The war came, and we lost. Our planet was bathed in fire, our people evacuated, and we fled our world.
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Escape from Tarkov Preview — Every Round is Sudden Death
I wait in my shroud of nature, and listen for what I’m certain will be the rest of my life.
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SMITE’s Shadows Over Hercopolis — Flashy and Repetitive
If I could set my character on AI mode and go make myself a sandwich.
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Art Tickles – Heroic Levels of Wisdom
The wisdom gleaned over a hundred now-nonexistent failures.
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Art Tickles – A Sort of Platypus
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 the myriad of flaws with the belief that there is a definitively wrong way to play, I find myself circling back to that idea like…
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“Gamers” Are Still Dead, Ya’ll
Written for Escapist Magazine, recreated with permission. Although gaming is alive and well, the stereotype of a basement-dwelling Mountain Dew goblin-teenager who screams at his mother for “interrupting” his boob-modded Call of Duty match to give him his pizza rolls is image others have of gamers. It’s an image we need to resist. I think…
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Art Tickles – Preserved
The world had ended 210 years ago.
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Art Tickles – Defined by Their Exceptions
David Cage missed becoming a film director, but never let it alter his dream too much.
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Art Tickles – Boxing Ourselves In
As the walls tighten, tensions soar, and pretty soon several will die—the situation feels inevitable.
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Need for Speed Most Wanted (2012) Review
Somewhere around 80 miles an hour, the engine redlines, a gear shifts, and my control becomes figurative at best.
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Art Tickles – Passive Entertainment
I believe games should celebrate passivity a little more.
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Ghost in the Shell Review — A Shell of What’s Beneath
Written for XPGain, recreated with permission. Among the more difficult things to realize in life is that change is slow, and accepting things that deviate from expectations isn’t always a quick or easy process. The themes of change and expectation deviation permeate the recent reboot of the 1995 classic Ghost in the Shell, which was…