Since this blog’s launch, I have had the honor and privilege of presenting my forty favorite jam games of the year six times. This format was always two things at the same time for me: Firstly, I celebrated the …
Do you like family distance cooking classes and bizarre karaoke interludes? Or are you more of a fan of bloody short adventures as a sword master and transgressive meetings with animal deities? Actually, it does not matter, because these seventeen…
We know that you loved to dance in the moonlight as a detective on the edge in “Disco Elysium”. We know that you traveled to the “Outer Wilds” again and again and again. We know that you transformed into …
“Some Excavated Wounds” by Sand Gardeners (Sam Machell & Colin Le Duc) & Moth. “Devon, England, is a root site of deep cultural trauma; the legacy of colonialism, slavery, and the systematic exploitation of workers and the …
“Kitchen For One” by Sand Gardeners (Sam Machell & Colin Le Duc). “[A full motion video] jazz [improvisation] cooking simulator about windows, mice, and everyday monotony.” Cooking is a very ambiguous activity, as “Kitchen For One” shows. For …
We do not care about the “God of War”. The growing and shrinking horse balls in “Red Dead Redemption 2” elicit only a weary smile from us. “Tetris Effect”, shmetris effect; okay, no, that one actually was great. …
Discover necessary and unnecessary sacrifices, stories about murders in mobster villas and tales about all kinds of friendship, real flower power, genre mashups, metagames and many other things in the December issue of “The Jam Report”, that features sixty-two jam…
This is the fifth installment of “Game Jams with James”: Chats with developers about game jams, games from jams, and short form games. Today, James is joined by the experimental Sand Gardeners duo: Colin Le Duc from France and …
“Exhaustlands” by Sand Gardeners (Sam Machell & Colin Le Duc). “The [fascist] army moves closer everyday[.] […] Space is running out, time is running out, faith is running out. But they can do this. Click and hold to …
