Kill Screen Magazine's Blog, page 358

Why a new edition of Dungeons and Dragons matters

The first step in evaluating a new era of roleplaying games.

Mountain is a first step toward more human-centered game design

Easy to learn, easy to master.

Swoon to Simogo's new "challenge-free experience" The Sailor's Dream with us

Over their short but fertile career, the two-man team at Simogo has established a singular voice: perfectly unified in art, sound, and structure, experienced through the glossy sheen of an iDevice. Last year, their brisk, sprightly aesthetic began to give way, first to the almost death-metal-dark Year Walk, and then with the Lynchian Device 6. 

Today, they've unveiled The Sailor's Dream, which they consider the third part of the trifecta begun with Year Walk. Its short video trailer dropped on Kill Screen HQ like a neutron bomb full of pastel hues and gently plucked guitar strings. Described as "a challenge-free experience in which you explore a non-linear story through words, music, sounds and illustrations," the video shows off a warm, lightly fantastic art style. The nautical ephemera and carefully inked lines present a world ripe for exploring, which, fortunately, seems like the only thing to do here.

It's due out later this year. 

Chandelier depicts the life and times of a party girl

Sia's hit song gets a chilling interactive companion. 

This American Life tackles the wonderful stabbiness of board game Dipolomacy

"I am losing three days’ wages to be here so that I can get screwed by you.”

Revisiting the gxTV, a “television for gamers” from 1997

In short, you haven’t played Wipeout until you’ve played it on the gxTV.

Say hello to Jenny LeClue, a crowdsourced "choose-our-own-adventure" game

It's all you!

Thomas Was Alone gets a new voice on the iPhone

Forever alone no more.

Get ready. Second generation Oculus Rifts have begun to ship

Motion sickness will be a thing of the past. Hopefully.

Adrian Hon envisions our design future, one object at a time

"A hundred snapshots across a century."