Top 10 Electron Dance Articles of 2014

Electron Dance is going to sleep for a couple of weeks! Read on to discover the top ten articles this year on Electron Dance. That's right, I've finally written a fucking top ten list. EPIC.

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The 2013 Review

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It’s the last Electron Dance post of 2013, so it is time to take stock of what I wrote and what you didn’t read, you stupid filthy dingbats. And did you know Electron Dance was on the Sunday Papers nine times this year? I know, poor show!

Also revealed: the top ten posts. Everybody likes Top Ten posts, right?   

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Electron Dance: The 2012 Review

Welcome to this year's bloated annual round-up! It's another chance for me to rub your nose in all those Electron Dance articles you so deftly avoided reading, thus depriving yourself of important educational supplements required for daily life choices. You know who you are. Yes, you. You who didn't read the Chaim Gingold interview. You who thought qrth-phyl was just Snake in 3D. I GOT YOUR NUMBER PAL.

Look, if you don't click open this bad boy, you won't discover your secret Electron Dance Christmas bonus.

I dare you not to click. Think of this as a Twine game with one possible move. What could go wrong?  

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Electron Dance 2011 Review

Apologies! This should have been posted in 2011 but there just wasn't any room in the schedule. Better late than after I'm the late HM, though. If you're wondering what Electron Dance goodness you might have missed in 2011, then this post is your compass to great destinations of word.

And dear sweet babies of Jesus, I realise how much I've written last year for no pennies.

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Sayonara 2010

2010 dies tonight. Let's celebrate by reviewing the Electron Dance year, because there's nothing like churning out the same old content in a sexy new cellophane wrapping.

The Year In Links

• What's the point of a game remake?
• The joy in ignoring the challenges and achievements baked into FUEL and embracing its freedom.
• The Schutzmannschaft were the local collaborators employed by Nazi occupiers to fight the resistance. This was a post about turning on your own.
• When you play games too much, you have the strangest interpretations of reality.
• A six-part Eurogamer Expo exposé. A write-up on a gaming expo that isn't about the hottest new games, about how important I am because I get to party with developers or how awesome it is to be here because I am so great and you're at home sticking ice cubes down your jeans out of sheer boredom. I cover: feelings of alienation; inept gaming skills under expo pressure; how I let Kieron Gillen walk all over me; a presentation I attended about a console game I would never play. The Expo Man series also set the record for most posts in a week ever: I posted something every day for eight days straight. Never. Fucking. Again.
• A write-up of the IGDA Writing Panel on Environmental Narrative at South Bank University. Interesting if you’re into the nuts and bolts of game writing.
• For someone who doesn’t have time to play games, I covered quite a few. I’d have to single out the Beat Hazard article as containing the funniest YouTube video of all time. Well, all time on this site. But I really like what Gregg B and I got up to with Revenge of the Titans and Immortal Defense.
• And the grooviest game trailer I've pasted in, despite the Deus Ex: Human Revulsion love-in, is the one for 4fourths.
• And I can’t go without bringing up Anti Games, the first signs of real life on Electron Dance. It meanders, but it's heart is in the right place, under the ribs. Left side.

For those who want to see Electron Dance in its early what-the-hell-am-i-doing days, the first post ever was back in April, a review of VVVVVV, which was nebulous longhand for it’s cool, you fool. I fumbled around for the right style for some time, most evident in The End of Hardcore. I eventually dropped the third person thing because it wasn’t my voice. A bit like my time playing The Aspiration... but that story is for next year.

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