I used to write a lot of fiction. For about 10 years of my life, that's all I did creatively. Now, I mostly write non-fiction and video scripts. In this video, I pick up my books for the first time in years and try to recall what they are about. It's weird to think a writer could forget something seemingly so big and important as one of their own books. Maybe it is weird, and I'm just bad a memory. Link where you can buy the books: https://calebjross.com/works/booklength/
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I had a lot of fun with Dishonored. Once I decided that taking a passive approach with all the sneaking and stealthy thing wasn’t for me, I went the opposite route and ended up really falling into the warm embrace of Dishonored. Will I play Dishonored 2? Eventually. But not yet.
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The credits have rolled on Trover Saves the Universe. Well, actually they haven’t. Not yet. But they will. I’m still playing it. And I do intend to finish it. I just feel confident that the endgame won’t surprise or delight me enough to make this early review an invalid review. Incomplete, perhaps. But not unfair. See, Trover saves the Universe is primarily a showcase for Justin Roiland’s brand of noncommittal riffing. Imagine you were to accuse a drunk neighbor of pooping on your carpet, and that drunk neighbor insists he did no such thing, delivering his appeal with all the incoherence and verbal hurdling over swallowed-down almost-vomit that a drunk neighbor would of course exhibit, and proudly so. That’s essentially every one of Roiland’s characters. Basically, you get the sense that Roiland’s voice recording sessions are just him, probably high, vocalizing every single thing that comes to his mind. Sure, he’ll pause to gather his thoughts or jump into an alternate take, but where less confident writers may insist the pauses and jumps be edited out, Roiland seems to insist the opposite. It comes across as brash laziness. And I freaking love it.The puzzles are the best kind of puzzles. Just a few mechanics to keep track of and each series of puzzles builds upon the rules of previous puzzles. It’s near puzzle perfection.
How should we, as gamers, handle the knowledge that some of our favorite videogames were likely created under potentially abusive working conditions?
I made a videogame! Here I talk about the game, and I offer a few thoughts about why I made the videogame. Play "Playing Nightmare Creators 4" now at https://calebjross.itch.io/playing-nightmare-creators-4 Mentioned: My Itch.io page with all my games that I've created.
It’s been a while since I’ve uploaded a video. But don’t worry; I still love videogames. In fact, my love of videogames is the main reason I have not uploaded a video for so long. Mentioned: My game development journey My itchio page (contains only html5 games)