Alex Pine

YouTube video by Alex Pine The Binding of Isaac: Game design critique

a clear sign that I need to find something better to do with my free time: I made an hour-and-a-half long critique of the Binding of Isaac franchise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSV1...

Today's tiny frustration is YouTube's auto-sync feature for subtitles being terrible at splitting up text in a natural and readable way. You have to manually adjust the timings and line breaks if you care about accessibility.

I've been thinking about how much the bonus puzzles from Talos Principle:RtG mean to me. They're a very rare example of gameplay reaching the artistic heights usually reserved for narrative/audiovisual arts.

@croteam.com crafted pure ludoaesthetic beauty in puzzle form. Never seen anything like it.

my Black Mirror take is that 15 Million Merits is still by far the best episode - though I have a weak spot for commodification of counter-culture as a topic/theme.

Patreon-exclusive little blog post from me: "Balatro, and the game that has me losing faith in roguelikes"
www.patreon.com/posts/blog-b...

Difficult to name any other recent indie game that has caused nearly as much damage to the market as Vampire Survivors

Stories from the Outbreak on Steam Stories from the Outbreak is a turn-based roguelike zombie RPG. Lead a group of survivors from the doomed city of Riga towards a ferry sailing across the North Sea. Scavenge for supplies, battle the u...

Perhaps the coolest thing I've made to date is Stories from the Outbreak, a turn-based roguelike where you escape zombie-infested Riga. Play it on your computer device!!

store.steampowered.com/app/1968630/...

YouTube video by Alex Pine Cultural analysis of idle games

i made an essay about the politics of idle games! www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_U2...

game design