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Category: Non-Fiction

[DEV INTERVIEW] KINGDOM’s Thomas van den Berg

Posted on July 8, 2016 By Brody No Comments on [DEV INTERVIEW] KINGDOM’s Thomas van den Berg
[DEV INTERVIEW] KINGDOM’s Thomas van den Berg

Kingdom from Raw Fury Games is a popular curiosity, in which you’re a ruler traveling the realm on horseback and trying to defend your fortress against evil enemies. For this blog post, I asked developer Thomas van den Berg about his background and the process of turning the game into what it is today.  …

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Game Design, Journalism, Non-Fiction, Video Game News

Sermon: Magpies for memes

Posted on June 24, 2016July 9, 2016 By Brody No Comments on Sermon: Magpies for memes
Sermon: Magpies for memes

You don’t have time. You can’t be bothered. Why waste your time? Time’s too precious. Your attention’s overstimulated by tweets, snaps, slacks, grams, swipes, and Skypes. If you can’t consume information or distribute your thoughts in 142 characters or less, you’ll explode. It’s pointless. Where’s the joy in nurturing a character concept from the nugget…

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Handling touchy topics in video games with care

Posted on June 24, 2016June 24, 2016 By Brody No Comments on Handling touchy topics in video games with care
Handling touchy topics in video games with care

Jumper the gator, star attraction at Chief Roadside’s Wonderland in Knee Deep, eats diaper chicken: a frozen chicken swaddled in a disposable diaper. Remy Dixon explains to blogger Romana Teague that Jumper eats diaper chicken because it reminds the gator of a chubby infant. YouTuber Foehamner was playing through the finale of Knee Deep’s first…

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Essays, Game Design, Knee Deep, Non-Fiction, Tales from Cypress Knee

Not your run-of-the-mill horse derby

Posted on June 27, 2014 By Brody No Comments on Not your run-of-the-mill horse derby

This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in June 2014: Rose Sandler wants to gallop in the footsteps of a conqueror. Centuries before Pony Express riders thundered across the untamed American West, Genghis Khan established a long-distance postal system using horse messengers in the Mongol steppe. Since 2009, a group known as The Adventurists has hosted…

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Non-Fiction, Sample Columns

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