LIKE THE DEVIL WALKING INTO HEAVEN Crippling anxiety took the wheel at 6:05 p.m. It was a stormy Friday in December 2019 and I was more than halfway to…
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Hunt A Killer, Earthbreak, and Empty Faces: Escapism for the Post-Truth Era
by Byron Alexander Campbell September 21, 2019Disclaimer: Review copies of Hunt A Killer and Earthbreak were furnished by the publisher, Hunt A Killer LLC. The reviewer was otherwise uncompensated for his opinion. Around the second week…
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Session Report: Legendary Encounters and Adaptation
by Byron Alexander Campbell March 28, 2015Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This month’s game…
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By María Negroni Translated by Michelle Gil-Montero This essay is from Dark Museum, now out from Action Books. In this collection of lyric critical essays, Argentinian poet and critic María Negroni writes…
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This Week in Coping: What We’re Playing
by Entropy January 19, 2015As a companion feature to This Week in Coping: What We’re Reading Now, I asked the Entropy community about the computer games, console games, mind games, tabletop games, playground games, browser…
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While standardization in gaming mechanics offers a means to utilize simplified systems to address a wide variety of different themes or interactive settings, it also simultaneously creates barriers in regards…