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TCAF 2011 Review: Snow
Snow, by Benjamin Rivers, is a very Toronto-centric indie graphic novel. It’s the 30-something equivalent of Brian Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim saga, but with a more culturally relevant storyline and...
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Thought Bubble: A Weekend to Remember
If you’ll indulge me, I find myself in a reflective mood on an unusually nerdy Monday afternoon following three unusually crazy days. It was a very good weekend to be a nerd, and I’m not just talking...
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Interview: Benjamin Rivers on Home
Click here to view the embedded video. The first thing Benjamin Rivers tells me is that my digital recorder looks like a Star Trek medical scanner. The seventh thing tells me is that he’s full of pizza...
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Home Review
If you’ll excuse me for just a moment, I’m going to swap my journalism hat for a neon sandwich board and a megaphone. Buy Home. Right now. It’s only $2 and it’s worth every penny. Go without coffee...
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News Shelf: 8/31/12
Dork Shelf doesn’t usually go knee-deep into the news world of video games, because let’s not kid ourselves – you’ve got a multitude of other sites to refresh on a 45-minute cycle. But we’re building...
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Toronto After Dark launches inaugural Darkcade
The Toronto After Dark Film Festival kicks off today, and it’s getting its first dose of games with the inaugural TAD Darckade, an indie video games showcase to run concurrently with the cult film...
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Cardboard Boot Camp: Analogue Video Games
OCAD students transform Minesweeper in to a multiplayer board game. A group of classmates gathers for a game of Minesweeper. Revealing each tile, as always, is an exercise of mystery and danger. When a...
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Gamercamp: Dyad’s Shawn McGrath
On Mass Effect, Dark Souls and why traditional storytelling in games is “a worthless endeavour” Shawn McGrath (Photo by Wesley Fok) For his keynote speech at Gamercamp, Shawn McGrath wanted to talk...
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Still at Home: An Interview with Benjamin Rivers
Everybody knows that game development is a tough gig. What many don’t know is that the actual ‘work’ doesn’t start until after the game has been completed. Just ask Home creator Benjamin Rivers. “You...
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Nacho Terror
(Warning: The following short story contains multiple instances of graphic violence involving nachos. You might want to wait to read it until after you’ve finished eating. But first, an introduction.)...
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PlayDead Episode 3: Benjamin Rivers
Welcome to Play Dead, the first and only podcast that looks exclusively at death in video games! Hosted by Gabby DaRienzo, Play Dead explores the different ways that death is used in video games and...
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The WhaleCast Episode 47: Benjamin Rivers
Eric sits down with Toronto game developer Benjamin Rivers to discuss Alone With You, the new sci-fi romance adventure now available for the PS Vita and the PS4. They talk about the game, the...
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Alone With You Review
In Alone With You, you play as a faceless space explorer attempting to make sense of a dying colony on an unstable planet. Since you only have enough resources for one month, you must obtain artifacts...
View ArticleContest: Win a Steam Copy of Benjamin Rivers’ Alone With You
Created by Toronto developer Benjamin Rivers, Alone With You is a bittersweet sci-fi adventure game/dating simulator in which you must escape a doomed space colony with the help of an AI companion and...
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Home Review
If you’ll excuse me for just a moment, I’m going to swap my journalism hat for a neon sandwich board and a megaphone. Buy Home. Right now. It’s only $2 and it’s worth every penny. Go without coffee...
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News Shelf: 8/31/12
Dork Shelf doesn’t usually go knee-deep into the news world of video games, because let’s not kid ourselves – you’ve got a multitude of other sites to refresh on a 45-minute cycle. But we’re building...
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Toronto After Dark launches inaugural Darkcade
The Toronto After Dark Film Festival kicks off today, and it’s getting its first dose of games with the inaugural TAD Darckade, an indie video games showcase to run concurrently with the cult film...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cardboard Boot Camp: Analogue Video Games
OCAD students transform Minesweeper in to a multiplayer board game. A group of classmates gathers for a game of Minesweeper. Revealing each tile, as always, is an exercise of mystery and danger. When a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gamercamp: Dyad’s Shawn McGrath
On Mass Effect, Dark Souls and why traditional storytelling in games is “a worthless endeavour” Shawn McGrath (Photo by Wesley Fok) For his keynote speech at Gamercamp, Shawn McGrath wanted to talk...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Still at Home: An Interview with Benjamin Rivers
Everybody knows that game development is a tough gig. What many don’t know is that the actual ‘work’ doesn’t start until after the game has been completed. Just ask Home creator Benjamin Rivers. “You...
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