Eily and Something Shiny
Eila and Something Shiny is a simply delightful board game to look at, as well as a joy to play. With artwork somewhere in the neighborhood of Saturday Morning Cartoon or Stuffed Toys Come to Life, the game itself can get a little dark and heartbreaking....
Disney Holodecks
In Star Trek (starting with The Next Generation) the Federation has the technology to produce realistic, immersive, fully interactive experiences that Disney theme parks could only dream about with envy. Until now. One aspect of the holodeck...
Stray
At its core, Stray is a platform puzzle game. You jump. You climb. You knock things over. But the twist with Stray is that you’re a cat. In the opening moments of Stray, you meet your nameless protagonist in the ruins of an abandoned city with a loose...
Brain.fm
It’s not often that Living in the Future intersects directly with my own writing process, but here we are. I’ve been writing for… well, comfortably over a decade at this point as my sole job. In that time, I’ve toyed around with various methods to deal with (or...
Dollhouse
Dollhouse is an early-2000s TV show starring Eliza Dushku as a programmable human known as a Doll. She is part of a program where a company rents out people, programmed to meet their needs, for short-term use. Even from this simple description, the knock-on...
Balder’s Gate
You’ve been kidnapped by aberrations from another dimension. They’ve implanted a parasite in your brain. Soon (and you don’t know how soon), that parasite will transform you into one of them, killing you in the process. Now, hunted by a zealous cult, you have to find...
Fluora smart plants
Some people are born with a green thumb. This sounds like a medical problem, or something fixable with soap. Other people can keep house plants alive. These people are called horticulturalists. Or sorcerers. These people are not me. Indoor plants are a wonderful...
Avatar Last Airbender
Avatar: the Last Airbender is among the latest conversions from animation to live action on the major streaming services (in this case, Netflix). It’s not the first attempt to make this jump with ATLA, and let’s just leave the M. Night Shyamalan version aside...
Flying Cars
In the late 19th century, the automobile was invented. Early in the 20th, humanity discovered powered flight. In the century since, the quest to combine these two primary modes of travel has been the holy grail of personal transport. We’re getting closer. A company...
Starfarers of Catan
It’s no exaggeration to say that when Settlers of Catan came on the scene in 1995, it changed board gaming worldwide. The randomized board and resources gave it great replayability, and with the simple worker placement and scoring, it became an ideal...