During the peak of Covid-19 cases, when the world was upside-down, I needed to get away. I decided on The Sims 4 as the perfect destination; bought a one-way ticket and a “do not disturb” sign.
Continue reading Raquel Motta: How The Sims 4 Became my Time Machine
The sun rises a little earlier every day, and then a little later. I set my alarm clock for the same time regardless, and some days I get out of bed; then there are the other days.
Continue reading Maz Hamilton: Jigsaws
No Man’s Sky, the survival-exploration game that first came out for the PC and the PlayStation in 2016, is full of beautiful planets. In every galaxy you can find thousands of vividly coloured paradises, directly inspired by mid-20th-century science-fiction book covers, with fat, backlit moons hanging heavily just over the horizon.
Continue reading Miriam Oudin: Eighteen Zeroes: Playing No Man’s Sky in Quarantine
This video game is no longer new but I love it
I play it every day and it feels like going outside
Continue reading Ariane Parry: video game
For the past six months, Phoebe Bridgers’ music has been an indispensable balm to me in weathering the emotional toll of this cruel and exhaustingly prolonged year. And to think, I might have gone without that small yet essential comfort had it not been for a videogame.
Continue reading Toussaint Egan: I’ll Plant A Garden in your Head, Then
Of course, almost everything about 2020 has been strange. But I’m a game designer. So a lot of the strange things that I’ve been paying attention to have been games: the shapes they’ve fallen into, the slightly askew ways they’ve fit into our lives this year.
Continue reading Holly Gramazio: Introduction
The premise of most escape games is simple: a team of players is “locked” inside a themed room, and must solve an interlinking series of puzzles in order to escape.
Continue reading Krishan Coupland: A brief history of escape room games in lockdown
Gatherings with my family are synonymous with food and, mostly, noise.
Loud voices. The clatter of forks and knives on plates. Resonant belly laughs. Screaming matches and impassioned debates.
Continue reading Sedera Ranaivoarinosy: One Game at a time
When football finally staggered back onto our TV sets this June, it looked and felt entirely different from the game we were used to. Suddenly, the mixed metaphors were sombre and the jargon had taken on a distinctly more medical bent. This poem was written to reflect the new reality of the beautiful game, with snatched fragments of commentary reshaped into verse.
Continue reading Orla Foster: The Science
At the end of the 2019 high school football season, Grandview Heights Bobcats Head Coach Jason Peters knew 2020 would be a tough one on the gridiron. Eleven of his total 39 players were graduating, leaving a giant hole in team leadership and multiple vacancies in key roles on both sides of the ball.
Continue reading Joy Frank-Collins: Covid-19 Dims Friday Night Lights