Caleb J. Ross's Blog, page 16

Your game room is probably pretty cool. But you can do better with your trinket display situation, right? Here I show you how to DIY some game room shelves using cigar boxes. The shadowbox nature of the game room shelves means you can put these things in all the nooks and crannies of your game […]

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The credits have rolled on Trover Saves the Universe. Well, actually they haven’t. Not yet. But they will. I’m still playing it. And I do intend to finish it. I just feel confident that the endgame won’t surprise or delight me enough to make this early review an invalid review. Incomplete, perhaps. But not unfair. […]

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The puzzles are the best kind of puzzles. Just a few mechanics to keep track of and each series of puzzles builds upon the rules of previous puzzles. It’s near puzzle perfection.

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How should we, as gamers, handle the knowledge that some of our favorite videogames were likely created under potentially abusive working conditions?

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Let me talk about the tension between the realism gamers want from their enemy characters and the lack of realism players need from their enemy characters.

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I made a videogame! Here I talk about the game, and I offer a few thoughts about why I made the videogame. Play “Playing Nightmare Creators 4” now at https://calebjross.itch.io/playing-ni... Mentioned: My Itch.io page with all my games that I’ve created.

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It’s been a while since I’ve uploaded a video. But don’t worry; I still love videogames. In fact, my love of videogames is the main reason I have not uploaded a video for so long. Mentioned: My game development journey My itchio page (contains only html5 games)

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It’s pretty common knowledge that Youtube comments can be mean. Recently, a viewer asked me to make a video exploring why the comments are mean. Be sure to stick around to the end of the video where I give two tips on how to handle negative comments that your own videos may receive. Mentioned: Full […]

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Google Stadia, Google’s videogame platform, was recently revealed. And I am very, very excited. Previously known as both Project Yeti and Project Stream, Google Stadia looks to to more to change videogames than simply make streaming a reality. In this video I give my initial thoughts on all the coolest aspects from State Share, Steam […]

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I hit a videogame milestone recently: I have beaten 100 games! I thought it would be fun to rank all 100 of the games in a series of videos. Here’s the next video, ranking games 66 – 70. To keep this list of games manageable, I’m allowing only games I finished (ie, I got the […]