by Angie Wenham | Jul 22, 2019 | Reviews, Tabletop Games
Affection is a card-based, turn-taking game with a simple aim: be as vulnerable as possible. I am probably the least-equipped person to do this.
I’ve mentioned in other posts that I’m autistic. Contrary to the many inaccurate stereotypes about autism, I do have feelings. I actually experience empathy to an alarming degree; I can’t begin to tell you the amount of TV shows and books that have ruined me, emotionally, for days and weeks. (more…)
Angie writes reviews and stories whenever she is not investigating the latest dating sim or visual novel. She is a full-time Dragon Age obsessive but also plays board games and tabletop RPGs when she can. Besides games, Angie enjoys manga, broody tattooed elves, and TV cannibals.
by Angie Wenham | Jun 27, 2019 | Opinion, Roundtables
Happy Pride Month! June is a time of celebration and contemplation, our two favorite activities here at Sidequest. This month, inspired by a tweet by Freyja Erlingsdótter, we sat down to talk about what queerness means in a gaming context. Can games be queer? What kinds of games can be queer? Find out within. (more…)
Melissa Brinks is Sidequest’s editor in chief, co-creator of the Fake Geek Girls podcast, author of The Compendium of Magical Beasts, and an aspiring beekeeper. She once won an argument on the internet, and tweets at @MelissaBrinks.
by Angie Wenham | May 23, 2019 | Reviews, Video Games
For the last few months, it’s been hard for me to focus on a new video game. Day-to-day stresses and my country’s near-hourly political turmoil (you know, the usual) all take their toll. Video games have often been my go-to shelter, but I find myself too distracted to stick with one for long. Spider-Man held my attention for a while, but I soon got overwhelmed by the sheer amount of things to do and collect. One of the ways my autism manifests itself is in a need to complete all the quests and obtain all the collectibles in video games. You can imagine the problems Peter Parker’s infinite backpacks caused me. (more…)
Angie writes reviews and stories whenever she is not investigating the latest dating sim or visual novel. She is a full-time Dragon Age obsessive but also plays board games and tabletop RPGs when she can. Besides games, Angie enjoys manga, broody tattooed elves, and TV cannibals.
by Angie Wenham | Apr 16, 2019 | Opinion, Video Games
Back in January 2019, Patrick Weekes (now Lead Writer on Dragon Age) made a comment about catgirls. Soon, he was swamped in tweets about whether he was creating a catgirl character for Dragon Age 4. Sadly, Weekes clarified he had been talking about Catra from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and had no plans to add a similar trope to the Dragon Age world of Thedas. (more…)
Angie writes reviews and stories whenever she is not investigating the latest dating sim or visual novel. She is a full-time Dragon Age obsessive but also plays board games and tabletop RPGs when she can. Besides games, Angie enjoys manga, broody tattooed elves, and TV cannibals.
by Angie Wenham | Feb 11, 2019 | Features, Tabletop Games
Gloomhaven is one of those legendary Kickstarter stories, fueling the idea that if you have a good, solid game, you can enjoy outrageous success. In 2015, it presented itself as a “cooperative game of card-driven combat set in a persistent fantasy campaign.” Choices would have real impacts upon characters and the world, changing them forever over several sessions (i.e. a legacy game). This first Kickstarter raised $386,104, just over five times its original goal. By 2017, the fact that designer Isaac Childres had actually delivered on his original game (combined with glowing reviews) meant he experienced a much more wildly successful campaign this time. Though the 2017 Kickstarter’s goal was $100,000, Gloomhaven took in nearly $4 million in pledges (40 times the target amount). (more…)
Angie writes reviews and stories whenever she is not investigating the latest dating sim or visual novel. She is a full-time Dragon Age obsessive but also plays board games and tabletop RPGs when she can. Besides games, Angie enjoys manga, broody tattooed elves, and TV cannibals.
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