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Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact By now, those who have kept up with this blog know that I discuss video games a lot. I also, however, enjoy all forms of entertainment, but most notably books. As such, I like anything that has some form of writing involved in its creation process. Due to my inclinations, I am distressed if […]
Read More Design Issues in Gaming: Writing for GamesLinks-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Video games have for a long time have had sequels to successful games. If the first game was popular enough, there frequently are sequels to continue the series in order to add more to the story and/or continue the adventures of our favorite video game characters. However, not all games in the same series […]
Read More Design Issues in Games: SequelsLinks-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Today, I will wrap up this series on the anatomy of RPGs. The point of this series was to look at and analyse the many moving parts of my favorite genre of video games, RPGs. This final part takes a look at how the player interacts with the game world in an RPG. Of […]
Read More The Anatomy of RPG’s, Part 4: InteractionLinks-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Okay, it took me some time to get to writing this article. I had been finishing a fair number of games recently, and wanted to review them so I could have more time to look into part three of The Anatomy of RPGs. Luckily, many of the games I recently reviewed were RPGs, so […]
Read More The Anatomy of RPGs, Part 3: CustomizationLinks-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact It is time for Part 2 of a multi-part series on the anatomy of RPGs. This series looks at the many moving parts of turn based RPGs in order to shed some light on how they work. Today’s focus is on the actions that take place in an RPG battle. RPGs have many battles […]
Read More The Anatomy of RPGs, Part 2: BattleLinks-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Well, I have been playing a few RPG video games lately. Since I started playing Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and Pokemon around middle school, I had been hooked on the genre. Today, I have something different from most of my other content. I will be looking at the many moving […]
Read More The Anatomy of RPGs, Part 1: StatsLinks-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Recently, I have been thinking about what losing in video games mean, and what it should mean for the player. I then remembered some old thoughts on the extra life systems used in many (but not all) video games. Years ago, I had the thought that they are somewhat meaningless in modern games, but […]
Read More Good or Bad: Life Systems in GamesLinks-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Today I have something a little different for you. After the new year rolled over, I recently reflected on the articles and changes That’s All Games went through. What I didn’t cover, however, were the reviews that didn’t make the cut. It was interesting to see that I experienced quite a bit in terms […]
Read More Tales of Unfinished ReviewsLinks-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact So earlier last year, I covered the Dream Allies in Kirby Star Allies. If you missed that article, you can find it here: Dream Allies in Kirby Star Allies At the time, only the first wave of updates were available, so I only mentioned the first six Dream Allies. Since then, wave two and the […]
Read More Kirby Star Allies’ Final UpdateLinks-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact So today, I will finish my recap of the 10 Day Video Game Challenge on Facebook with the games that didn’t make the list. There were three games I considered for the 10 day challenge that I wanted to add, but I wouldn’t have had room for the more important picks if I included […]
Read More Honorable Mentions: The 10 Day Video Game Challenge on Facebook
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