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Weird games facing censorship: the case of Horses and the silent purge
The scene is almost absurd: it’s the day before the launch of Horses on the Epic Games Store. Two years of work, $100,000 invested, an Italian studio, Santa Ragione, literally staking its…
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Home sweet home – The imaginary house
“I, Herbert S. Sinclair, of the Mount Holly Estate at Reddington, do publish and declare this instrument my last will and testament…… I give and bequeath to my grandnephew, Simon P. Jones,…
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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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Jay O, creator of No Vacation for an Executioner
I first spotted No Vacation for an Executioner several months ago, on X, on a RT. I was immediately intrigued by its aesthetic and artistic direction, and PSX aesthetics still speak to…
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Mathilde Hoffmann: Sound designer and composer on ODDADA
Music is an integral part of video games. Whether through its presence or absence, the sound design of epic battles or the nostalgic melodies of a walking simulator. Mathilde Hoffmann, freelance sound…
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Phoenix Springs #3 | The release
For this third Tales From the Devs in collaboration with Calligram Studio, we once again take a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Phoenix Springs. After exploring the artistic ambitions and game…
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The Case of the golden Idol: small relic seeks big brain
An idol to rule them all January 5th, 1742, the date of the original sin. Albert Cloudsley and Oberon Geller, guided by a map that leads them to the island of Monkey…
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Schim and his little shadow theater
The shadow is so much a part of us that we end up forgetting about it. A key element in Professor Layton’s most devious puzzles; the personification of the spirit of childhood…
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My woke in your face: for more politicised and imperfect games
2024. You could say that the video games industry is on fire. Not in the ‘it’s cool’ sense, but literally burning before our very eyes. Studios are closing, developers are being laid…
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Duck Reaction #2 | The nightmare Steam
We’re back with Mathieu and Simon for this second episode of Tales from the devs devoted to their studio Duck Reaction. As a reminder, in the first article (available here) we discussed…