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    raft is a video game about raft-building, not survival

    May 9, 2022 /

    Raft is a raft-building game first, and a survival game second. The open world video game was developed by Redbeet Interactive, and published by Axolot Games.  It was released on Steam as an early access title in May 2018, and…

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    don’t starve together, with a little help from my friends

    December 13, 2021 /

    I was introduced to the ominous ink-drawing world of Klei Entertainment’s Don’t Starve by two bona fide experts, who invited me into a custom server of Don’t Starve Together one lazy winter afternoon.  Between them, my friends had more than 2,000 hours of…

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    worlds adrift review: struggles of the skyship mmo

    June 10, 2019 /

    On May 29th, Bossa Studios announced that it would be shutting down Worlds Adrift, the sandbox MMO where you build and pilot your own skyship through a sky of player-created islands.  The game, which has been in early access on…

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    get your mind in the gutter: the in-between medium of comics

    January 20, 2016 /

    “There is a crack in everything.  That’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen In the world of storytelling media, books and games sit at the extremes.  Books are seen as passive – the story is laid out, and…

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