If my daily interactions with folks today are emblematic of our current state of the world, then I’d say we are greeting each other with stressed smiles. Many months and even longer days have come ...
Whether it’s 40-plus hour epics, RPG grindfests, or endless idle apps, gaming today often assumes a huge time commitment. In comparison, A Short Hike is a novella. The itch that this brief excursion intends to ...
Less than a mile from where we live is a place called Little Tokyo. This Japanese American fabric of Downtown Los Angeles is home to a robust community, history, and restaurants aplenty. You can stop ...
It’s 2021. We have now entered a post-Flash age. Your mileage will vary if you go searching for them now depending on your browser, persistence, and current version of Flash. Though Internet libraries such as ...
These days you’re probably spending more of your recreational Internet exploration watching videos and playing games on your smartphone. But for a generation of millennials, hopping onto the family’s only desktop after school or work ...
Perusing the virtual buffet of panels at Game Devs of Color Expo 2020 made me as indecisive and hungry (for game design knowledge) as the real thing. And if there was an equivalent to the ...
If you kept an ear to my dorm room in college, you would hear the frantic keystrokes of a computer science major on finals day. But alas, not even “Intro to Java” could get my ...
My knowledge of Greek mythology is a dusty tapestry of Disney’s Hercules, Disney and Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts (with Hercules in it), questionably appropriate plays of God of War as a child, and actually appropriate ...
In the midst of COVID season, when most large expos have been cancelled, the 2020 Game Devs of Color Expo (GDoC) exceeded expectations by hosting a very organized online event this year—despite all challenges. This ...
A sheltered-in-place pastoral spring of Animal Crossing (Nintendo Switch), early summer blockbusters in the form of The Last of Us Part II (PlayStation 4) and Ghost of Tsushima (PlayStation 4), and a late summer of ...