Interview
Necrobarista Dev Is Aiming to Become ‘the Studio Ghibli of Visual Novels’
Kevin Chen wants more out of visual novels. The 2000s have been a period of growth and increasing complexity for video games, anime, ...
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The Legend of Bum-bo Treats Cardboard as Serious Art & Sent Its Creator to Therapy
The Binding of Isaac, depending on whom you ask, is about parental abuse, religious fundamentalism, and childhood trauma, or about a naked baby ...
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Teardown Tasks Players with Planning the Perfect Destruction-Filled Heist
Video games are difficult to make. The barriers to entry are lower than they’ve ever been thanks to powerful, accessible tools like Unity. ...
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Industrialism Run Amok Is the Villain in ‘Permalife’ RPG Sparklite
Lucas Rowe, his brother Edward, and their partner Kevin Mabie have spent the last four years developing Sparklite, an action RPG with roguelike ...
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MediEvil Remake Devs on Being Faithful ‘Without Feeling Like a Bad Cover Band’
The Dialogue Tree is a new column at The Escapist by Patrick Lee in which he talks to game developers large and small ...