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Fallen London Exceptional Story: Written in the Glim
If you are finding current heatwave in real London tiresome (THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN), might I suggest you visit Fallen London instead? There is no sun there.While you're there, find...
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Fallen London Exceptional Story: The Murgatroyd Formula
My second Exceptional Story for Failbetter Games' Fallen London, The Murgatroyd Formula, is out now! In it, you'll embroil yourself in a family feud, track down a moon-milk dealer and orchestrate the...
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Fallen London Exceptional Story: Steeped in Honey
It brings me great joy to announce that I am the author of Steeped in Honey, this month's Exceptional Story for Failbetter Games' Fallen London. Behold, the woman at the story's heart!To find out who...
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Night in the Woods: Small town blues
The following post contains spoilers for Night in the Woods.I'm glad I made Re-Entry before I played Infinite Fall's Night in the Woods because if I hadn't, I'd have been pretty disheartened. Like...
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I have made a game!
I've made a game with Twine. It's called Re-Entry, and you can play it for free in your browser by downloading it from the Interactive Fiction Database.The rest of the post is about what I was trying...
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Uncharted 4: A Thief's End - Using reality to deliver the ultimate fantasy
The following article contains spoilers for all 4 Uncharted games.Many story-driven games use fantastical or other-worldly settings to make the player reflect upon real life, but the Uncharted series...
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A walk into the abyss: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Spoiler warning for Everybody's Gone to the Rapture!I'm pretty nosy. When I go to people's houses, my attention is divided between the conversation and the mantlepiece as I scrutinise the family photos...
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The Creation of a World
At 8, I came close to failing an English exam because one of the questions was too exciting. I diligently began by reading through the entire paper, but was immediately derailed by the final...
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Lara Croft GO and Hitman GO review: More please.
I presume that mansion's got a hefty mortgage, because since she stopped selling Lucozade, Lara Croft has needed a part-time job. Previous extracurricular projects in the fallow years between major...
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Willy Wonka and The Horror Factory
Spoiler warning: This post contains spoilers for It Follows, Body Snatchers and Under the Skin.General warning: This post is about horror movies. It's not explicit, but does contains some...
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Well-Rendered's Games of the Generation #2: The Last of Us
The Last of Us, Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment (2013)Spoiler warningThe "Games of the Generation" series is a list of favourites, so I was initially puzzled that the number two slot ended up...
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Well-Rendered's Games of the Generation #3: Deadly Premonition
Deadly Premonition, Access Games/Rising Star Games (2010)Game-ruining spoiler warningThere are games that set out to rewrite the rulebook on how interactive narrative works, and there are games that...
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Well-Rendered's Games of the Generation #4: Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 2, BioWare/Electronic Arts (2010)I'll settle for "writer" now that I've reached the age where rock stars die, but my number one lifetime ambition has always been "starship captain" (number...
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Well-Rendered's Games of the Generation #5: Fallout 3
Fallout 3, Bethesda Game Sutdios/Bethesda Softworks (2008)I know I sound like a broken record, but the one thing a video game can do that no other narrative medium can is give you a world and let you...
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Well-Rendered's Games of the Generation #6: Portal
Portal, Valve Corporation (2007) Spoiler alertPortal, as I have said many times before, is a brilliant metafictional twist on the entire puzzle genre in which the lab rat gets the better of the...
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We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast for the following announcement:Image taken from thenovellife.com.I have started a tumblr. As a person who uses the internet, I see cool stuff all the...
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Well-Rendered's Games of the Generation #7: Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar Games/Rockstar San Diego (2010)I'll start this post with a massive oversimplification: when it comes to the driving force behind their art, Europe has history, America has...
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Well-Rendered's Games of the Generation #8: Bayonetta
Bayonetta, SEGA/Platinum Games (2010)Before the last generation began, I had a lot of time on my hands. Time to cover every inch of my bedroom walls with postage-stamp sized images of my heroes and...
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Narrative in Her Story, The Stanley Parable, Gone Home and Papers, Please
I initially set up Well-Rendered to discuss narrative in games, so it seems remiss not to talk about a handful of recent favourites, which are to varying extents experiments in interactive...
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E3 Roundup!
It’s been several years since I looked forward to E3. The launch of the current console generation has been tough on everyone, and the budgets of AAA games confine the most creative and risky projects...
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