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Art Tickles - Emotionally Over Budget
It costs something to be a part of games spaces.
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Art Tickles - Seeking Comfort from the Apocalypse
The post-apocalypse is a strange place to fish for comfort.
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Art Tickles - Sharing Perspective
Games are a great many things, and for both mundane and complex reasons, they are difficult to write about.
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Art Tickles - Untaught Languages
There's a gulf between understanding what a game is meant to evoke, and intuiting what a player experience is like.
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Art Tickles - Starting Line Cinematics
An empty, vacant soundscape resolves to the sound of rushing air. The camera starts on a tight angle along the side of an old military plane. It follows the line of an airplane’s body, as though flying in its slipstream. As the camera draws back, the view quickly dips down through the empty space wh
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Art Tickles - Well-suited
It’s all glitzy neon and flashing lights, and Kiryu is punching a man half to death in an alley.
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Art Tickles - Neither at Once
The peace will never last.
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Art Tickles - Putting Out Gunfire
I love guns. I do not like guns. They are fascinating. They are terrible.
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Art Tickles - What Lurks Beneath
Written for Haywire Magazine. I don’t really know what I’m doing. Subnautica isn’t a game about anything in particular. At least, not for me. It has crafting mechanics, certainly, and a narrative, but what really calls to me are its depths. The cool, crushing, oxygen-squeezing uncertainties of
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Art Tickles - What Friends Do
It’s meant to give the player a reason to enjoy the experience, unburdened by too much expectation.
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Art Tickles - Hard Stop, Fresh Start
Written for Haywire Magazine. This was a tough year. A year that brought a lot of political struggle, a lot of social outcry, a great deal of exhaustion, and not a lot of positivity to show for it. It was a year in which a lot of people fought hard
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Art Tickles - Heroic Levels of Wisdom
The wisdom gleaned over a hundred now-nonexistent failures.