Battling the Backlog
January 10, 2023
I, like many terminally online gamers, have what we in the biz call “too many games.” Before I get into this piece, I want to...
Author
Rinoa Carmichael
Co-host of game design podcast Platforms and Pitfalls, Rinoa is a game design enthusiast and aspiring translator living in Tokyo. In love with the weird, the wonderful and the queer. A particular fan of J, W, T, S and A RPGs, visual novels and fighting games.
10 Articles
Platforms and Pitfalls Rant 5 – Melty Blood’s UI
August 16, 2022
This month, Rinoa and Blue are at it again, this time combining their love of fighters and visual novels by talking about the new Melty...
The Kirby Trap – LudoLudo Dissonance
August 11, 2022
First you draw a circle, then you dot the eyes, add a great big smile, and presto, it’s Kirby! I have spent a lot of time in my...
Let’s have a party with Lost Dimension’s traitors! – LudoLudo Dissonance
March 16, 2022
This article may appear to contain spoilers in some screenshots, but due to the random nature of the Lost Dimension, these are not...
Avoiding Fall Damage – Platforms & Pitfalls #42
January 17, 2022
This month Platforms and Pitfalls are looking at fall damage in games, and more specifically, how games let you avoid it. We looked at Just...
The foreshadowing of Evil Zone – LudoLudo Dissonance
July 7, 2021
After a long and if not successful, odd, marketing campaign, EA’s Dante’s Inferno was finally released in early 2010. A few months...
Chaos Rings and the chaotic frailty of mobile gaming history – LudoLudo Dissonance
April 20, 2021
Games are a big medium. It’s impossible to know every game, follow every format, genre, region, and so naturally we are all going to fall...
The State of Employment in Wild Arms XF – LudoLudo Dissonance
March 28, 2021
Wild Arms XF* has the best job system in gaming. *XF is pronounced CrossFire. Since inception, classes have been a core part of RPG...
Inner and Outer Loops – Platforms and Pitfalls #31
February 15, 2021
This month Platforms and Pitfalls are looking at inner and outer loops in run-based games. What’s an inner loop? An outer loop? A...
Ludoludo Dissonance – In Fire Emblem nothing is certain, except death and restarts
February 9, 2021
*Critical hit* *character dies**restart* If that felt familiar to you, and you didn’t read the title of the article, you are...