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Critical Journal Entry #5

Today, on Totally Serious Games, we will be discussing and reviewing and analyzing a very simple and materialistically developed, to raise awareness about the rising global health crisis and pollution for animals and how it affects not just us, but our animal friends in the sea. This game is a simple 2 dimensional chaser game…

Critical Journal Entry #4

Today’s choice of game for the string of serious games reviewed for the Critical Journal entries is a game called Gamestar Mechanic. Gamestar Mechanic is a game that was developed to help young kids interested in games and playing games understand how game development works, and essentially the principles of game design. The game goes…

Critical Play Journal Entry #3

Having played multiple games on 365escape.com, today I will be reviewing the game “Locked Doors” on 365escape.com and the game can be found via this link : https://www.365escape.com/Locked.html A very fun game in my opinion, Locked Doors takes you around what looks like a very nice bathroom and then a living room, finding clues with…

Who am I ?

Hi! My name’s Aaditya Mohapatra, a double major at Rutgers University, in Information Technology and Informatics and Economics. An avid gamer, I have at least 3000 hours on the massive Blizzard IP Overwatch, more recently getting into more competitive 5v5 shooters like Riot Game’s newest IP ‘Valorant’ and the classic, can never forget Counter Strike…

Critical Play Journal Entry #1

Part 1 : Defining [Serious] Games In the Game Definition Game : A Review by Jaako Stenros, a lot of definitions of games are tossed around, and a lot of them actually are very intriguing and and inquisitive and require a decent thought to be given to the definitions. For long now games have been…

Critical Play Journal Entry #2

In today’s critical play journal entry, I will be comprehensively walking through and analysing a serious game on the series of .io games, more specifically on the itch.io website. IO games are known to have minimal development, not fully optimized, browser based quick games that essentially cater to casual gamers that just want to get…


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