Category: Features

Tech Talk: Pandora’s Printer

This feature can also be found at the South West Londoner, here. The printing press in the 1400s was one of the great innovations of humanity – allowing us to communicate with others, duplicate important texts, and, several hundred years of improvements …

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Tech Talk: The ghost of Myspace past

This feature can also be found at the South West Londoner, here. Every so often, I remember something embarrassing I did as a teenager and feel such intense shame that I am slightly more welcoming to the idea of being struck by …

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My Big Mouth: Save Our Subcultures

This feature can also be found at the South West Londoner, here. Violent attacks against subcultures like punks and goths are now being considered as hate crimes by the Greater Manchester Police (GMP). What was once only the territory of politically-established social …

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My Big Mouth: Queer up the media

This feature can also be found at the South West Londoner, here. A thought experiment for you: Think of three pieces of media (books, film, games, whatever) that meet the following criteria: The main character is straight.  The piece is not of …

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Tech Talk: Remove U

This feature can also be found on the South West Londoner, here.Nick D’Aloisio is both a pretty cool guy and entirely frustrating. On one hand, I entirely support independent developers. With app stores on mobile phones and game download services like Steam, …

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Tech Talk: This personality has 5,000 Likes

This feature can also be found on the South West Londoner, here. Social Networking is both the glory and the bane of the modern age. It connects us to our friends and family in a way that would be impossible 20 years …

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The Solution is Fisticuffs

This feature is also available at n-Europe, found here. The Menu-Based RPG. Iconic for the games that come under it, the way it changed perspectives on game design, and the impact it had on gaming culture. It’s also a genre that’s fallen …

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The Too Spooky Shopping Trip

This article has been written as part of the Critical Distance October Blogs of the Round Table. It can also be read at Digital Heaven Entertainment, here. The scariest moment in gaming I’ve experienced? Accidentally saving over a near-endgame file of Final …

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10 Features More Games Should Include

This feature can also be found on Shadowlocked, here. Everyone has their personal likes and dislikes when it comes to game design, and when making games for the public, a developer can’t possibly please everyone. That said, there are often trends and …

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A Future of Polygonal Friends: Final Comments

This piece is split into three parts (Part 1 is here, Part 2 is here), and was written for the Critical Distance Blogs of the Round Table.  Thanks for taking the time to read ‘A Future of Polygonal Friends’!   This was …

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