Allison Weiss
Game Designer & Artist
Games with a Grain of Salt
Game Breakdowns
The posts on this page are meant to be brief game analyses/teardowns. I can honestly say I am not the best at playing games, and my tastes tend to lean towards narrative games. As I go on adding more posts, my writing style and personal approach should clarify. Regardless, these are more on the subjective side. As such they are meant to be taken “with a grain of salt”, or a healthy amount of skepticism, thus the name above.
Little Inferno
October 2, 2019
Most of my friends can tell you that I’m a bit of a pyromaniac. I won’t burn anything important, but I am known to stare longingly at a lit match until it burns up. The gorgeous fire in this game would have been enough to draw me in, but it goes above and beyond and supplies clever satire, hilarious item descriptions, fantastic explosions, and a genuinely fun game, to boot. Continue reading…
Untitled Goose Game
September 24, 2019
In real life, I live in almost constant fear of birds messing with me, flying towards my face, pooping on me from above, etc. But in Untitled Goose Game, I AM the bird and I want to mess with everyone in increasingly amusing ways. Continue reading…
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