Game Design

Josh Plays Assassin's Creed #2 - [Billy Idol Voice] With a Freedom Cry

Josh Whittington

Sep 2, 2020
5 min

Josh Plays Assassin's Creed #2 - [Billy Idol Voice] With a Freedom Cry

*This post contains open spoilers for Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry and Assassin's Creed: Liberation* Freedom Cry is an interesting point...

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Josh Plays Assassin's Creed #1 - Back in Black

Josh Whittington

Aug 27, 2020
10 min

Josh Plays Assassin's Creed #1 - Back in Black

Black Flag was my last Assassin’s Creed game. After being burned badly by Assassin’s Creed III, I was put off by the fact the next game...

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Josh Plays Assassin's Creed #0 - Introduction

Josh Whittington

Aug 25, 2020
7 min

Josh Plays Assassin's Creed #0 - Introduction

I have a complicated history with Assassin’s Creed. The first two games were amongst my favourites of all time. I was very late to the...

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Josh Whittington

Oct 30, 2019
9 min

Josh Plays Pokemon #6 - Hoenn Confirmed

They say that the Pokemon generation you’re most nostalgic for is the one you started with. I find that’s not the case with me. I started...

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Josh Plays Pokemon #5 - Tapu Koko Channel

Josh Whittington

Oct 29, 2019
7 min

Josh Plays Pokemon #5 - Tapu Koko Channel

Pokemon Channel's not very good, but could serve as the foundation for something great. It also got me thinking about CheezTV and Tazo&#

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Josh Plays Pokemon #4 - Let's Not Go and Say We Did

Josh Whittington

Oct 22, 2019
15 min

Josh Plays Pokemon #4 - Let's Not Go and Say We Did

Let’s Go is in a weird grey area where it’s a spin-off that tries out some new core gameplay loops while also trying to be as close to the m

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Josh Whittington

Jul 12, 2019
8 min

Josh Plays Pokemon #3 - Skullomania

I’ve reached the end of Pokemon Moon (excluding the rather anemic post-game content) and it never really grows out of the issues I...

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Josh Plays Pokemon #2 - Fly Me Away From the Moon

Josh Whittington

Jun 27, 2019
5 min

Josh Plays Pokemon #2 - Fly Me Away From the Moon

I played Pokemon Sun at release and my memory of it was that it was a game where GameFreak were clearly trying to deliver on some...

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Josh Plays Pokemon #1 - Back to the Beginning

Josh Whittington

Jun 27, 2019
6 min

Josh Plays Pokemon #1 - Back to the Beginning

Despite my grievances with some of GameFreak’s choices in direction of the most recent Pokemon games, I’ve found myself getting swept up...

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From the Archives - Affordances In Scribblenauts: Enabling Creativity

Josh Whittington

Feb 20, 2019
5 min

From the Archives - Affordances In Scribblenauts: Enabling Creativity

This essay was written in 2014 for a critical game theory unit that was part of my uni degree. It was for a 3rd year unit so the level of ex

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From the Archives - Mechanics and Imagery in Persona 4's Boss Battles

Josh Whittington

Feb 20, 2019
6 min

From the Archives - Mechanics and Imagery in Persona 4's Boss Battles

This post is from one of my old blogs, and was posted on January 7th 2013. When I played through Persona 4 Golden after getting some games c

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