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 words per minute up as much as Spelunky. Now, in what seems like many moons later, Spelunky 2, the highly […]
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 documentaries about ancient civilizations. Suffice to say, I’m no Athena on this aspect of history. However, I am a glutton […]
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 was my first time attending this expo (and any online expo, for that matter), and as an Asian American with […]
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 party games in the likes of Fall Guys (PC) and Among Us (PC, mobile) made 2020 a year an interesting […]