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Hey yall! To close off 2020, I wanted to recap on some of the things that helped me get through the year. I ended up reading 40 books this year. I’m really not sure how I did it, to be honest. 2020 frequently made it hard to focus, so
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On October 17–18, 1000 Dreams Fund (1DF) hosted its first BroadcastHER Virtual Summit. The Summit was focused on elevating the stories and expertise of the women who are involved in the gaming and tech scene. 1DF hosted the event as a part of its mission to provide resources to
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I’ve become known as the person who plays cool indie games on my streams. This has happened mostly by accident, but I’m pretty happy to be known as that person. We’ve covered a lot of ground playing games from Reverie to Dandara to Celeste. I enjoy the
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I wrote an article with my early thoughts on Spiritfarer about a month ago. I loved the early hours of the game. Exploring the world and meeting the new spirits was a joy and learning how to be a better Spiritfarer was always on my mind. Excitingly enough, that want
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On September 19–20, I attended the Game Devs of Color Expo. I wanted to attend because I’m still interested in getting into game development and let me tell you, I got so much more from the expo than I anticipated. The talks ranged from how to add more
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Old Man’s Journey is a puzzle adventure game based around helping an old man make his way back to his family after receiving a letter in the mail. The art style is beautiful, combining hand-drawn scenes with frame-by-frame animation. It’s a story about rediscovering a life that you’
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This week we’ve got something pretty special! We’re taking an early look at Freyr, an indie title coming from EpicHouse Studios. Their team consists of six people spread across writing, art, music, and programming. I’ve had the chance to play through the V slice (for those of
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My first experience with a Thunder Lotus title was picking up Jotun by chance during a sale on the Nintendo Switch eShop. I fell in love with the studio’s hand drawn art style and larger than life worlds and enemies they created. I followed that by playing Sundered, a
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Children of Morta is an action/RPG game where every time you die, the dungeon resets and changes and you have to start anew each run. While it seems like there has been an influx of similar feeling games into the indie gaming market, Children of Morta stands out due
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Like many new and learning developers, I have attempted the 100 Days of Code challenge. The idea is to spend at least an hour coding every day for 100 days. The idea of the challenge is to spend this hour not on following lessons, but on actual projects that you
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Edited by Kishonna L. Grey and David L. Leonard, Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Justice focuses on challenging games and gaming culture to be better. We live in an age where it seems like games are only going to become bigger and bigger. Students are receiving actual
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I’ve been doing a lot of cooking lately. I really enjoy it, and it feels like magic to create something out of what seems like such simple ingredients. Cooking isn’t something that I’ve always done, but it’s something that I’ve appreciated more and more the
