Kris Ligman's Blog
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Casuals are the future! Without casuals our industry will crumble into dust. It's a seductively easy line of thinking, but if we look to one recent success of 'casual appeal' on Nintendo's 3DS, the narrative starts to look a lot more complicated.
Perhaps in our pursuit of new creative horizons we can look to simpler, nearer to hand sources -- like the absurdity and brilliance produced by Patrick Rodriguez's "The Citizen Kanes" Twitter bot.
2D action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter made waves when it appeared on Kickstarter last month, getting voted through Greenlight before its funding campaign had even wrapped. I interviewed the developers to learn what's special about this pixel art darling.
You slaved over that application, submitted on time, and you still don't understand the festival's decision. As a two-time IndieCade juror including one of this year's "super jurors," allow me to demystify a bit of IndieCade's selection process.
As the saying goes, never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. But when moderators are undertrained and undersupported, their mistakes reflect on the whole company -- including you.
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I sought to highlight this ...
I sought to highlight this with my examples, but Jill is absolutely not saying anything about emulation. There are women who fight, and there are women in industry, and women who are outcasts or homeless or just heroes by virtue of the roles they fill or challenge . In other ...
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This was a lot of words to just say 'it was actually first released in arcades. ' r n r nHowever, noted, and I tweaked the paragraph. Thanks.
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@Keith r n r n We 're talking about the PURPOSE of Dwarf Fortress here, and I 'm saying that you 're mischaracterizing its purpose by talking about narrative. r n r nDan might murder me for interjecting as a critic here, but -- speaking to what a game is ...
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Yikes, that 's an oversight. I 've added the link to the post. Here it is: http://higherlevelgamer.org/2013/10/08/nuances-of-satire-falling-into-gta-vs-biopolitical-trap/
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I 'm very sorry that happened to you. It definitely isn 't the sort of remark a super juror would make, but no juror should be making it, frankly. That 's not what I signed up to do, and that 's not what most jurors sign up for. r n ...
