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Essays, Game Design, Narrative Design, World Design

Transistor and Bastion

[extensive spoilers for both Transistor and Bastion] It’s hard to put a name to the relationship between Transistor and Bastion. Is Transistor a successor? A spiritual sequel? A sister game? The relationship between the two is similar to that between…

Problem Machine
September 28, 2014

Criticism, Essays, Life in the Machine, Narrative Design, Playing Games

The Resistance

[slight spoilers for Transistor and Bastion] Change is the status quo. Some people fight against that change, and some people embrace it. One side calls themselves a revolution and the other calls themselves tradition, but when we have a tradition…

Problem Machine
September 18, 2014