The Gameshelf
Website: http://gameshelf.jmac.org/
Independent Game Criticism and other interesting stuff
| Episode Name | Release Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Spacewar at MIT | 02/08/2012 | Today I dropped by MIT to see a demo of Spacewar, the Very First Videogame -- originally written for the PDP-1 in 1962; now reconstructed by GAMBIT for the Arduino. My photos aren't terrifically clear… |
| Mammals needed | 02/01/2012 | No long article from me this week; am setting up with a new client to earn money to buy more time to think about games for your pleasure, dear reader. But here a couple of small items nonetheless: Ann… |
| Meanwhile update -- and a one-day sale | 01/26/2012 | I've just released an update to Meanwhile. Is this exciting? I hope it is, because this release contains new high-definition artwork. Digitally remastered from Jason Shiga's original files! (I've alwa… |
| Slash Fiction and other puzzles | 01/23/2012 | As I have done every year since 2004, I spent the second weekend in January playing (or solving, to use the field-specific lingo) in the MIT Mystery Hunt. I always feel quite privileged to play; each … |
| Dark Souls: Pain without Pause | 01/17/2012 | I’d like to follow up on that last post about Dark Souls, providing a little more context for my reaction. While it occurred against a backdrop of environmental stress that was probably incompatible… |
| Going Cardboard | 01/12/2012 | I just got back from a preview showing (I think the first public preview showing?) of Lorien Green's documentary Going Cardboard. It was pretty great. The movie covers the modern era of board games, w… |
| When Dark Souls broke its contract | 01/07/2012 | Last semester I found myself needing two copies of Xbox Left 4 Dead so that we could study that game in class. I already owned one, and feeling too lazy to requisition another from the university, I a… |
| Key Features: a new (small) Zarf IF game | 01/06/2012 | A new (tiny) IF work -- Key Features! This was commissioned by MakerBot Inc. in honor of their upcoming product announcement, which will be at CES on Monday. MakerBot is a nifty 3D printer company, an… |
| Notes on an introductory game-studies lab | 01/02/2012 | I’m pleased to announce the release of annotated class materials from the introductory game lab I taught last fall. I built the course more or less as I went, generating a lot of notes and other wri… |
| Animated Screenshots / If We Don't, Remember Me | 01/02/2012 | I find it tempting to write that Leon Arnott’s Animated Screenshots is the If We Don’t, Remember Me of video games, but I’m not sure if that’s exactly true. Somehow Gus Mantel’s IWDRM, throu… |