MDA, 8 Kinds of Fun: Valorant (Hamidou Guechtouli) April 9, 2024 A game I love is Valorant, a 5v5 character-based fps game. The kinds of fun (aesthetics) that I enjoy the most in Valorant are…
MDA: Undertale April 9, 2024 One of my favorite games of all time is Undertale, a smash-hit indie RPG. While Undertale creates many different types of fun, my favorite…
MDA: Stardew Valley April 9, 2024 The core mechanics of Stardew Valley consist of farming (planting, watering, and harvesting crops), fishing (casting, reeling, and collecting), mining (exploring caves and breaking…
MDA Analysis: Rain World April 8, 2024 This post contains minor spoilers for the game Rain World. Play it first. It’s worth it. Rain World is a vast game, and brutally…
Critical Play: Avalon April 8, 2024 For my critical play, I chose to play Avalon with six other players. Avalon is a hidden role board game designed by Don Eskridge…
Critical Play: Social Deduction (Spyfall) April 8, 2024 Spyfall was created by Alexandr Ushan and published by Hobby World in 2014. Spyfall was designed for 3-8 players and is listed as being…
Inscryption and Competitive Fun April 8, 2024 The featured image above is take from a modded version of the Inscryption made by YouTube channel Lumord – https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=C5kDfJyiz8Y. Inscryption, a video game…
Critical Play: Avalon – Yuren Sun April 8, 2024 The Resistance: Avalon (Avalon) is a unilateral competition game designed by Don Eskridge. It is an appealing social deduction game for 5-10 players, preferably…
MDA & 8 Kinds of Fun — BTD6 April 8, 2024 Bloons Tower Defense 6 is the sixth entry in the Bloons TD series, a tower defense game in which the player places monkeys (the…
Mayshu Zhan – Short Exercise: MDA & 8 Kinds of Fun April 8, 2024 Gone Home is a narrative exploration game that draws players into a deeply emotional and culturally immersive story. It focuses on exploring, discovering, and…
MDA – Katana ZERO April 8, 2024 Katana Zero is an indie platform game where you take the perspective of Subject Zero, an assassin with amnesia, to kill all enemies in…
[Critical Play] Among Us April 8, 2024 Among Us is a truly inclusive game that can be played by anyone, young or old, gamer or non-gamer for the same extraordinary experience…
Critical Play: Spyfall April 8, 2024 For this critical play analysis, I chose to play Spyfall. Designed by Alexandr Ushan and published by Hobby World, it bills itself as a…
MDA — Risk of Rain 2 April 8, 2024 The first thing you notice when playing Risk of Rain is a difficulty indicator. Easy, Medium, and Hard are arrayed along a timer, which…
MDA: Cornhole April 8, 2024 Cornhole is a multilateral competition game that involves two teams aiming bean bags at two slanted boards and trying to get the bags to…
Critical Play: Secret Hilter April 8, 2024 Secret Hilter is a unilateral competition game in which one team of Liberals competes against a team of Fascists in order to pass acts….
MDA: Dark Souls – Oluseyi Ogundipe April 8, 2024 A game series that I have been recently replaying and enjoying once again is the Dark Souls series by From Soft. Dark Souls…
MDA: Twister – Blain Engeda April 8, 2024 One of my favorite games to play with friends and family is Twister. Its basic mechanics consist of at least two players and a…
MDA – Animal Crossing: New Horizons April 8, 2024 Like many others, I played a lot of Animal Crossing: New Horizons over the pandemic. In this game, you are an island representative, working…
Social deduction: Secret Hitler’s Use of Probability April 8, 2024 Secret Hitler is a social deduction game created by Max Temkin and Tommy Maranville for teenage and adult groups of players (i.e. family or…