Author: Jack Slater
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Sentris Review
Until I played Sentris I wasn’t sure what it was. All I knew was that there was a new music game from Samantha Kalman’s Timbre Interactive game studio but not what the actual gameplay entailed. Was it a rythym game in the style of Rock Band or Guitar Hero but with a circular note highway?…
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There Are Alternatives to Video Game Piracy
Daniel Starkey writing for Offworld: Some, perhaps most, people in industrialized countries have the luxury of seeking out media they care about and stories that speak to them, and they can afford to support that work with their money. But for others like me, it can feel like a seemingly insurmountable struggle. To live even…
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Raven Software’s 25th Anniversary
Judy Newman in the Wisconsin State Journal: In a place like the Madison area, where people supported home-grown businesses way before the phrase “Buy local” became a battle cry, it’s not all that unusual to find companies that have been a mainstay for decades. But in the highly competitive and ever-evolving world of video games,…
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Sentris
Samantha Kalman’s music game Sentris was released this week out of Steam’s Early Access program, it looks very innovative: Sentris is a musical performance puzzle game. Make your own music as you Drop, Recycle, and Stack “Sound Blocks” into a spinning loop. Freestyle with a huge degree of musical control. Or focus on achieving the…
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Jonathan Howard Interviewed by David Wolinsky
On Don’t Die: I don’t know how you come to the point where you think the problem in your hobby is that more people want to be involved with it and they want to explore that medium in new and different ways. [Laughs.]Like, how is that a problem? When students make student films, when auteur…