Who wants to read about video games?
It seems Pen’s sitting down and chatting with nearly everyone these days, but you’ll want to give this short Kill Screen piece a quick read. In it, Pen talks “about the games that brought him through his childhood and into the world of magic talking dogs.”
As a teenager I played the hell out of Myst. I loved how the game let you stay in the world after the final cut scene, which I did! I’d cruise around the islands listening to different looping atmospheric sound effects … lots of wind and ocean sounds. It was a great escape for me. I read the Myst books, and was all about the idea of creating portals to real worlds by describing where you’d like to go on a page of magical D’ni paper.
Illustration by Trip Carroll.