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Lian Amaris has been studying and writing about games, transmedia storytelling and immersive environments since 2003. She has two Master's degrees from NYU, was a new media professor for 3 years then transitioned to mobile tech in 2011. From 2012-15 she worked on bringing over 35 F2P mobile games to market.
  • Full of Stars Review: Stellar Adventure Undone By Ads
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    Full of Stars Review: Stellar Adventure Undone By Ads

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    Full of Stars is an exciting combination of arcade gameplay and choose-your-own-adventure style narrative, which is extremely well-executed. You are the salty captain of a volatile spaceship during an intergalactic war which has claimed the lives of much of humanity. Directing your …
  • Numplussed Review: Mazes for Mathletes
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    Numplussed Review: Mazes for Mathletes

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    Math as a source of anything but stress is a, ahem, dividing issue. For some folks, the idea of confronting any sort of math problem brings up cold sweats and for others, it’s no sweat at all. After a long, …
  • Drop Not Review: Slow Your Roll
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    • iOS
    Drop Not Review: Slow Your Roll

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    Lovers of chubby geometric animals (and we know there are quite a lot of you out there) have a quirky little journey to take in new arcade game Drop Not. Player reflexes will determine the fate of cubic, cherubic creatures who …
  • Onirim Review: Satisfying Solitaire
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    Onirim Review: Satisfying Solitaire

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    Onirim is an engaging take on Solitaire (which I’ve never found to be particularly entertaining) with a mystical theme and some creative obstacles to offer interesting challenges and opportunities for strategy. The game only takes about ten minutes to play …
  • Tokaido Review: Well Worth the Journey
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    Tokaido Review: Well Worth the Journey

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    Writing game reviews can be challenging for all kinds of reasons, but probably the best reason is when you won’t start writing because you don’t want to stop playing. I’m thrilled to have had this experience with Tokaido. It is …
  • Trilogic Review: Tri-mendous
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    • iOS
    Trilogic Review: Tri-mendous

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    Rock-Paper-Scissors is a simple game that is so effective in its design that it has not only been used as tool to determine multimillion dollar deals, but is also an extremely common mechanic used in video games to balance the …
  • Trilogic Tips, Cheats and Strategies
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    Trilogic Tips, Cheats and Strategies

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    Trilogic is a colorful puzzler from 1Button that relies on a rock-paper-scissors mechanic to clear a board of fire, water or leaves all in relation to one another. Each element can be consumed by another, with a goal of leaving …
  • Pocus Review: Clever Little Cubes
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    • iOS
    Pocus Review: Clever Little Cubes

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    Gamebrain has brought us another puzzler that challenges perceptions of space and dimensionality while introducing some interesting mechanics. The gameplay of Pocus occurs on the face of cubes or cube-based forms, where you must guide a little red square across …