Login

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
mastodon.online is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A newer server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

Administered by:

Server stats:

11K
active users

mastodon.online: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.4.0-nightly.2025-04-01

#wanderstop

5 posts3 participants0 posts today
Public
Clare

My spoiler free thoughts on #Wanderstop :

I couldn’t stop thinking about things I need to do for work or cleaning jobs I need to do around the house while I was playing.

I did not learn a lesson about the importance of rest but I really wish I did.

Also it made me cry.

Public
Marcin SJ :blobfoxfingerguns:

<<In October, 2013, the video-game designer Davey Wreden and a collaborator, William Pugh, released the Stanley Parable HD, a polished and expanded version of a prototype that Wreden had developed in college. Wreden and Pugh hoped that they might sell 50,000 or so copies of the new version in the course of its lifetime. They sold that many on the first day.

Wreden followed the Stanley Parable with a second critically acclaimed title, the Beginner's Guide, and cemented his reputation as a designer who defies convention. But his search for new forms never yielded a sense of personal uplift or fulfillment. It took him years, he said, to see that he had built a kind of mental prison. After the release of the Beginner's Guide, in 2015, he found that he could no longer write at all.

In January, 2016, Wreden began drawing for upward of five hours nearly every day. He would produce hundreds of pictures in the course of a six-month span, all of them variations on a simple scene: a pastoral clearing with a quaint-looking tea shop surrounded by trees, rocks, and brooks, which became the seeds of his new project, Wanderstop.

The game, which was recently released, belongs to a burgeoning genre of nonviolent titles devoted to relationships, crafting, exploration, and routine-to building, rather than destroying. In a 2015 lecture, Wreden declared that a fearful state of mind" within the mainstream video-game industry had led to "an art form in which by far the most ubiquitous form of expression is that of firing a gun." We have, he went on, "a culture where violence is understood and implied to be the central means of problem-solving." Wanderstop is a kind of rebuttal, prizing dialogue and contemplation over heroic acts.

Read a profile of the influential game designer, whose career has gone from the absurd to the practical>>
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/GEAR

The New Yorker · The Game Designer Playing Through His Own PsycheBy Christopher Byrd
#gameing#TheStanleyParable#Wanderstop
Public
Gaffen

So, uh, #Wanderstop just made me cry. I've been going through a very difficult period since losing my voice and having to put the @hearsepileup album, (and the band in general) on hold. The moments where Alta can't bring herself to lift her sword despite it being a foundational part of her identity... It really really got to me in an incredibly specific way.

I may write something about this soon - I think it's time.

ExploreLive feeds
About