Lewis Packwood
Games Journalist at Freelance
Freelance video-game journalist with bylines in The Guardian, EDGE, Retro Gamer, etc. Author of Curious Video Game Machines.
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
creativebloq.com | Lewis Packwood
Although the game engines Unity, Unreal Engine and, increasingly, Godot tend to dominate in the indie games space, they’re not the only options. And for artists who are looking to hop the fence and try making games themselves, the LÖVE engine, which utilises the easy-to-learn Lua programming language, could be a fantastic way to get started.
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2 weeks ago |
creativebloq.com | Lewis Packwood
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4 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Lewis Packwood
Your House is inspired by a remarkable true story. Back in the 2000s, a rich New York couple paid architect Eric Clough to renovate their new apartment, with the slightly odd request that a poem about their family should be hidden away in one of the walls, like a time capsule. Inspired by this, Clough took it upon himself to make a few unorthodox modifications to the dwelling without his clients’ knowledge.
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1 month ago |
creativebloq.com | Lewis Packwood
The story of Your House from Barcelona-based studio Patrones & Escondites acts as a prequel to the studio’s 2020 game Unmemory, following the life of teenager Debbie Steinbecker before she joins the all-girl gang Killer Kittens. Debbie is having a terrible 18th birthday: she’s been expelled from school, betrayed by her boyfriend and hit by a car. But at midnight she finds a mysterious envelope on her bed containing a key and an address.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Lewis Packwood
As with seemingly everything in the UK, it all comes back to the class system. Verity Amersham, a scholarship student at Miss Mulligatawney’s School for Promising Girls, is accused of pushing the hockey captain out of a window, and the school’s fearsome headmistress is determined to expel her despite the flimsiest evidence.
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Here's a look back at all the #videogames features I wrote in 2024 - a year in which I got to interview Nolan Bushnell, Peter Molyneux, Charles Cecil, and many, many more luminaries of the games industry. It was a good one! https://t.co/d7WlRkgsDk
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