• From Heaven's Vault: the main character and her robot companion walking along the rim of a structure covered in large Ancient writing. In the background is a large statue.
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    Delightful Games to Play (Part 1)

    Video games are a pretty huge part of my life. I endeavor to make them. I stream them, both for my monthly Future Proof Plays streams and some on my own. Gregory and I have a standing Saturday morning date to play something before the world begins its demands on our time. I also play quite a lot on my own, although admittedly more in depth than in breadth. I’m often eager to fall in love with a game, especially a game that might land the two objectives I talk about in my Paradise Killer post. As a result, this list of kinda-sorta-okay-definitely-favorites is: Unsorted, Pretty biased towards recently-played games,…

  • Paradise Killer - A view of Island 24 from the Idle Lands (Lady Love Dies' prison)
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    The Facts and the Truth are Not the Same – Paradise Killer Almost Gets There

    There’s a certain kind of game that I’ve become very into in the last few years. These are games that are investigative or explorations of knowledge and that bring one or two important things to the table: They’re definitely going to examine the broken-ass structures of the society they’re set in, and They might offer up a way to break, reshape, or recreate the society to be not-terrible. The first gets me to play a game with gusto. The second makes the game perfect. Paradise Killer is an outstanding game by Kaizen Game Works in which you play Lady Loves Dies, a disgraced immortal investigator let out of prison to…