Tag Archives: flower

May
13
2009

Why Make Video Games?

Last week I talked about why I play video games. Video games have always been such a major hobby in my life that separating the “why” from the habit proved to be far more difficult than I anticipated when I sat down to write the article. Now, I would like to talk about why I [...]

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Apr
08
2009

Challenge in Games: Everyone Hates Nathan

Resistance 2 is a first-person shooter which doesn’t seem to understand what era it was released in. There are moments in the game where a player, in the role of Nathan Hale, is walking through a forest, the screen will shake and some loud footsteps will occur for about a second, and then an enemy [...]

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Feb
16
2009

Flower

Flower is a rare video game. For one thing, it has flowers. For another, no one dies. It’s a game where the player controls the wind that guides a lonesome flower petal (and its eventual flock of follower petals) through a game world in need of nothing more than some attention, love, and nourishment.
Flower is [...]

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