I haven't seen much written about Hemisphere Games' Osmos, which won the D2D Vision Award at the 2009 Annual Independent Games Festival. In Osmos, you control a cell-like circle that floats around and absorbs and resorbs other similar ...
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I tried to write a paper back in 2005 about minimalism in video games. It was a complete failure. The main tenets of minimalism—functional and visual simplicity, bare-bones design, an exposure of the critical elements of its category—seemed ...
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I don't mean to harp-on about this topic, but it seems to have grown in to an interesting discussion. This is largely thanks to a mention on the Tale of Tales website (the creators of The Path). The ...
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