Many Nights a Whisper: The Echo of Dreams
Amidst this flurry of very good (not to say excellent) indie games, there is one that has particularly caught my attention over the past year. It’s not one of the best known,…
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Dread Delusion : Lo-Fi RPG
Sometimes all it takes is a single image to make you want a project more than you should. What we see speaks to us or intrigues us in particular, and that’s the…
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Citizen Sleeper 2: Philosophy of Failure
Context I’m starting this piece with a question that came to me during my first few hours of play in the franchise’s second installment: “Why am I so afraid of failure in…
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Chained Echoes: 16-bit Renaissance
I’ve been writing about video games for over a year now, and I realize that I’ve never yet talked about J-RPGs, a genre I’ve been particularly fond of since my childhood. After…
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Ellipsis, the revelation of time
This paper is taken from the September 2024 issue of Kaleidoscope, and deals with the notion of Time. One day, I wanted to tackle the subject of time, I’ve opted for a…
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The Art of Hades
Hades is a title that touched me deeply as a gamer. It’s the standard-bearer of modern independent video games, and it took the whole industry by surprise with the quality of its…
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Harold Halibut: when getting bored becomes an art form
There’s something about being bored, even if we’re not all equal when it comes to boredom. We’ve all experienced moments of weariness so profound, so dense, that they seem to alter relativity,…
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Pepper Grinder : A little too much pepper in the Grinder.
Pepper Grinder is announced during Nintendo’s Indie World Showcase in November 2022. The Ahr Ech studio project, led by solo developer Riv Hester, is presented as an edgy, colorful 2D action-platformer. Inspired…