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Ark: Survival Evolved [official site] has been gradually adding animals specifically designed to appeal to RPS writers. First the Tusoteuthis vampyrus romanced Pip, then Alice doted upon the armadillo you can travel inside. That means that it’s my turn now to tell you about the latest addition.
It’s a monkey who can throw poop.
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.
As recently decreed by the Unquestionable Authorities as better than Monkey Island 2, it seems that just about everyone should be playing the marvellous Toonstruck [GOG]. But are they? Have you? Played it?
Hacking is a terrible thing which can ruin multiplayer games for everyone. Hacking can also, on occasion, turn multiplayer games into a creepy fever dream and deliver the kind of anecdotes that you want to tell all your friends about. That’s the case with what happened to Idle Thumbs‘ Nick Breckon in GTA Online [official site] when he found himself i) spontaneously wealthy ii) the owner of every gun in the game and then iii) with a green-haired clone of himself attached to his back. There’s a YouTube video below with Breckon telling the story, cut together with some footage of it happening.
Hey, kids! Do you ever feel like if you don’t speak up — and speak up often — you’ll literally disappear? Do you ever feel like if you do speak up, everything you have to say is trivial and pointless and no one cares? If so, you’ll love Interruption Junction, a short one-button conversation game about being lonely in a group of people! If not… well, I envy you.
But anyhow: click repeatedly or mash the spacebar to interrupt.
Also, if you want to check out the source code, it’s available here.
I’ve written a small ebook called BREATHING MACHINE, a memoir of growing up alongside mysterious computers, primitive adventures, and the advent of the bizarre internet. This is my first attempt to challenge myself to write something more long-form, and it’s also some of the most personal writing I’ve ever done. I
If you’re nostalgic for, or curious about those early days of discovery in tech when everything felt like a magic door was just around the corner, if you miss your AOL and CompuServe friends, if you think about Usenet or the Apple IIe, or if you, like me, found out about yourself by questing in these strange, tactile, unfinished spaces, I think there’s something in the book for you.
I’m excited to announce that BREATHING MACHINE is now available for preorder from Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Google play here, and will be available on the 22nd, and I hope you’ll check it out.
I don’t sell many things to my readers — this is the first thing in my eight-year career writing about games, virtual worlds, social media and internet culture — so if you’ve enjoyed my work, a purchase would be a much-appreciated way for you to support me. Your Tweets, shares and signal boosting would also be warmly appreciated. And if you work for an outlet and are interested in blurbing or reviewing BREATHING MACHINE in some capacity, please email leighalexander1 at gmail.
I’m excited to share this with you! Thank you so much for your readership.
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