Archive for tag: editorial

Improving games with bugs?

March 21, 2010 | by SPJglitches

Continuing today’s theme of glitches allowing for better gaming, Cameron Pershall at Bitmob wrote a piece called “Learning to Love Bugs” a few days ago about how certain bugs improve one’s enjoyment of a game. From the article:
These are just a few of the glitches I’ve encountered in Fallout 3: dead ghouls randomly falling [...]

Glitching the way to better horror

March 21, 2010 | by SPJglitches

SWE3tMadness at Destructoid wrote a really interesting piece about horror video games, and how the intentional presence of glitches in video games could elevate the genre. Very cool stuff! Check out the article and the excerpt below:
What I want to see is a game where that comfort zone is forcibly taken away, [...]

Bugs need friends too

February 19, 2010 | by SPJglitches

I mentioned this a little while ago in the forums, but this is a nice article from Bitmob user Allistair Everett that discusses how unwanted bugs and glitches can actually be enjoyable. Here’s a snippet from the article:
Sometimes, when the character you’re talking to randomly spawns from the sky and [...]