Let a billion videogames bloom

Hello, everyone! As of this week, No Time To Play is 11 years old, and we're settling into a new normal. I even found a couple of short posts from last autumn to rekindle journaling on the wiki. Things might just work out after all.

Otherwise, we have a couple of write-ups for historians and artists:

• Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate;
• Tiny tools and the ephemeral nature of digital art….

Then, something for game designers and marketers:

• Postmortem: Der Geisterturm: an instructive write-up about the sequel of a game I watched being made.

We also have Hardcore Gaming 101 reviewing Heretic and Hexen. But not much else because this week I'm avoiding mainstream news.

On this note, enjoy what's left of the summer, and see you next time.

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