Review: Love Closes the Distance in Fire Tonight

Review: Love Closes the Distance in Fire Tonight

Carrying a lighthearted phone conversation with her boyfriend, Nevin, Maya touches upon her anxieties and expectations after having just freshly moved into a new city. Unexpectedly, a mass fire breaks out. When the telephone lines jam and power goes out, the long-distance communication limitations of the year 1990 cut Maya and Devin’s conversation short. The two soon take their own separate journeys across the city and through memory lane in order to reunite.

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We Are the Music Makers: What We Listen to While Gaming

We Are the Music Makers: What We Listen to While Gaming

The first time I heard No Man’s Sky referred to as a “podcast game,” I felt my entire life change. I’m a notorious multitasker, and the idea that I could both play something and catch up on one of the numerous podcasts I’m behind on at the same time was revelatory.

Now, to be fair, I’ve never actually sat down to play No Man’s Sky while listening to podcasts. But as I was thinking about this, and all the other things I do while playing games, I realized that there’s a not insignificant part of my gaming history intertwined with the music I was listening to while playing. So, as always, I asked the Sidequest crew what they thought! (more…)

Review: Music Puzzle Fails to Hit the Right Notes

Review: Music Puzzle Fails to Hit the Right Notes

Music Puzzle

TagWizz
Android, iOS
November 2017

Music Puzzle is a free-to-start mobile game whose genres are exactly what you’d expect: music and puzzles. The goal is to sort out a clip of music, putting each piece in its proper order and in the row for its proper instrument, like a jigsaw puzzle you listen to instead of see. I really liked the concept of listening and logicking through different instruments to put together a piece, so I thought I’d give it a try.

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6 Video Game Scores and Soundtracks to Level Up Your Day

6 Video Game Scores and Soundtracks to Level Up Your Day

There are music people in this world, I feel like I’m often surrounded by them. People who are interested in specific bands, who can identify songs that haven’t been playing nonstop on the radio for the past few months. I am not one of these people. I’m, in fact, pretty tone deaf and prefer silence to ambient music, but I’m trying. I know I can like music, because I enjoy good video game scores and soundtracks. So, when Paige wrote about Bioshock’s awesome sounds and Laura wrote up the 6 Movie Scores and Soundtracks, I was inspired. (more…)