Minor Titles Quarterly
Small games, examined closely
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Minor Titles Quarterly
Small games, examined closely
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Each review records a judgement reached under the conditions described on the method page. Where a review infers that a design decision followed from a small team's constraints, that inference is drawn from the finished game alone and is not a report of anything anybody told me.
Playtimes describe my own play and nothing broader. Nine hours means the nine hours it took me to reach a stopping point, on the settings stated, on one machine, with whatever attention I had that week.
Reviews describe how these games are put together, including how they end, because games of this length cannot be discussed usefully otherwise. This is stated on the method page and here, and no warnings appear inside the reviews themselves.
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