A chronicler who recites events without distinguishing between major and minor ones acts in accordance with the following truth: nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history. To be sure, only…
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Game Worker Solidarity on Joystick: “Most gamers don’t know what our working conditions are like and that’s by design”.
Γράφει ο/η Στέλιος ΑναγνωστόπουλοςΓράφει ο/η Στέλιος ΑναγνωστόπουλοςI was looking forward to this interview, which had been ready for a long time but some obligations did not allow me to publish it at the appropriate time. Game Worker Solidarity is actually a…
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Dr. Alfie Bown on Joystick – “Whether the designers want them to or not, games carry the ideology of their creators and of their culture”.
Γράφει ο/η Στέλιος ΑναγνωστόπουλοςΓράφει ο/η Στέλιος ΑναγνωστόπουλοςDr. Alfie Bown is a lecturer at the Royal Holloway University of London at the Digital Media Culture and Technology Chair. He is the author of Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism (Zero Books, 2015),…
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Natalia Martinsson on Joystick – “Creating games is an amazing way to create a safe environment”.
Γράφει ο/η Στέλιος ΑναγνωστόπουλοςΓράφει ο/η Στέλιος ΑναγνωστόπουλοςIt is a great pleasure and honor to host Natalia Martinsson as I love Killmonday Games’ stories. A creator without a nugget of hypocrisy who boldly talks about mental health issues without taboos and prejudices.…
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Interview with Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story, Telling Lies and IMMORTALITY on Joystick
Γράφει ο/η Ανδρέας ΣταυριανουδάκηςΓράφει ο/η Ανδρέας ΣταυριανουδάκηςA few days ago it was three years since my first article was published. The topic of this was the importance of independent game releases through four examples. One of them was ‘Her Story (2015)’,…
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Greg Kythreotis of Sable on Joystick: “Playing video games is like a ritual”.
Γράφει ο/η Στέλιος ΑναγνωστόπουλοςΓράφει ο/η Στέλιος ΑναγνωστόπουλοςSable is a reference point for me as a game. Many times through the environment or music and sounds emanates an almost religious feeling of overwhelm that many times we do not easily detect in…
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Paul Conway on Joystick -“Adventure games will continue to evolve into other genres”.
Γράφει ο/η Στέλιος ΑναγνωστόπουλοςΓράφει ο/η Στέλιος ΑναγνωστόπουλοςThe Darkside Detective was one of those games that I discovered when it was first released as a demo on some indie games platform and fascinated me with its humor, among others. I wanted it…