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Text Adventures in the Dark
My face is slightly flushed and I can feel the steady rhythm of my heart pounding precariously against my chest; at this I turn my arm up, my eyes casually reading over the marks planted on my forearm to remind myself exactly why the world is blurring together. I carefully count the slashes I've made and find: twenty strokes of a marker. At this I realize that in my hand is drink number twenty, two zero, and that next to me is a girl who has at this point stopped talking and has looked over with me to the count and smiles, "Do you want to be ...
Organ Trail: Director’s Cut—Embracing Mobile for the Win
Late last week, The Men Who Wear Many Hats released the iOS and Android versions of their retro-styled Organ Trail. If the name didn't give it away, what you've got here is essentially a gorgeous little 8-bit styled zombie survival game with heavy roots in the classic Oregon Trail. Your wagon now has the word 'Station' in front of it, and you're fording hordes instead of rivers, but many similarities abound, resulting in a hilariously nostalgic experience that demands solid resource management, luck, and a steady finger. That said, there ...
