Hi everyone! I’m back in London again; there was no Lo-Fi Let’s Play last week because I was traveling. I’ve slowly caught up on jet lag so severe that I cried about a picture on a Netrunner card, and I’m on my way back to full working capacity!

I’ve done a feature on the emerging Twitch Plays phenomenon, with thoughts from the company as well as people working with Twitch as a platform, on how to design for games that are not just playable by the streamer, but also by the people participating in chat. Neat trend.

And here is a new video — this time it’s Eagle Berns and Holly Thomason’s The Coveted Mirror, published by Penguin Software in 1983. It’s a sweet one that actually uses the specificity of parsers as a little joke on the player, in timed events where every task counts. Check it out and see what I mean!

If you’re new to the series, you can always see previous links and commentary on this website, and all the videos are on my YouTube channel.