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PAX West 2024: Ender Magnolia balances beauty and brutality, just with fewer difficulty spikes | Interview with Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Nate Hermanson

17 hours ago
6 min

PAX West 2024: Ender Magnolia balances beauty and brutality, just with fewer difficulty spikes | Interview with Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Ender Magnolia publisher Binary Haze talked to us about the "oppressive and dark, but still beautiful" Metroidvania releasing winter 2025.

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Playdate's Pulp stirs up creative juices and makes game dev accessible

Nate Hermanson

Apr 30
9 min

Playdate's Pulp stirs up creative juices and makes game dev accessible

We talked with AlternateHamlet, George Banks, and Ron Lent about how the easy-to-use Pulp engine can make a game dev out of nearly anyone.

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Mirthwood looks to level up life sims with RPG elements - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

Nate Hermanson

Oct 23, 2023
9 min

Mirthwood looks to level up life sims with RPG elements - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

Mirthwood brought its first-ever playable demo to PAX West and solidified its place as a life and farming sim game worth watching.

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World of Horror developed "low and slow" heads to 1.0 release - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

Nate Hermanson

Oct 16, 2023
8 min

World of Horror developed "low and slow" heads to 1.0 release - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

Palms sweaty, pulse racing. The typical PAX West experience? Or the result of playing the demo for World of Horror?

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Narrative RPG Long Gone Days centers humanity in a time of war - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

Nate Hermanson

Oct 9, 2023
8 min

Narrative RPG Long Gone Days centers humanity in a time of war - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

As Long Gone Days approached its October release date, we talked with Lead Programmer Camilo Valderrama at PAX West.

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Fight Crab 2's physics-based action delivers a welcoming chaos - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

Nate Hermanson

Oct 1, 2023
7 min

Fight Crab 2's physics-based action delivers a welcoming chaos - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

Two crabs enter the arena... but only one can leave victorious. We talked with PLAYISM at PAX West about the absurd brawler Fight Crab 2.

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Demonschool delivers a more active tactics RPG experience - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

Nate Hermanson

Sep 28, 2023
8 min

Demonschool delivers a more active tactics RPG experience - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

Necrosoft Games Founder and Director Brandon Sheffield schooled us in all things Demonschool at PAX West 2023.

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Everdeep Aurora keeps drilling its way into our hearts - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

Nate Hermanson

Sep 24, 2023
8 min

Everdeep Aurora keeps drilling its way into our hearts - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

At PAX West 2023, we drilled down into the Everdeep with Ysbryd Games Founder Brian Kwek, publisher for Everdeep Aurora.

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Billy Basso on creating mysterious and mind-blowing Animal Well - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

Nate Hermanson

Sep 18, 2023
11 min

Billy Basso on creating mysterious and mind-blowing Animal Well - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

We had a long chat about the beautiful and layered platformer Animal Well with its solo developer, Billy Basso, at PAX West 2023.

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Physics meets crafting in silly survival game Dropkick Navvy - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

Nate Hermanson

Sep 16, 2023
7 min

Physics meets crafting in silly survival game Dropkick Navvy - PAX West 2023 hands-on/interview

Dropkick Navvy shows what survival actually entails: A lot of stumbling, talking to trees, and getting bonked on the head.

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Find a rival, learn to ball, and save a community in Beastieball - PAX West 2023 interview

Nate Hermanson

Sep 14, 2023
8 min

Find a rival, learn to ball, and save a community in Beastieball - PAX West 2023 interview

Greg Lobanov's "dream game" to make is our dream game to play. Find out what we learned at PAX West 2023 about Beastieball, coming in 2024.

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