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This was a big year for The Obscuritory! A few highlights from 2018:

• Two panels: one at Super MAGFest 2018 about game preservation with Frank Cifaldi, Shannon Symonds, and Rachel Donahue; and one at Awesome Con 2018 about the role of fangames and hacks in gaming culture.
• One of the first English language interviews with Muriel Tramis, who developed games inspired by the cultural memory of Martinique and recently received the Legion of Honor.
• I managed to find a copy of Secret Writer’s Society, an educational game that was pulled from shelves for a scandalous, terrible bug, and, with help from some readers, finally figured out the story of what happened.
• With a bunch of friends and readers, we brought back to the discontinued multiplayer shooter Control Monger for one afternoon, and I spoke with producer Clyde Bielss about the development of the game.
• The Obscuritory turned 10 years old! TEN!
  

More of my favorite articles from the year:

• Knights of the Crystallion, a mesmerizing “cultural simulation” game about spiritualism in a druidic fantasy civilization.
• Biosys, an adventure game that’s also a survival game and an ecosystem simulator.
• Aaargh! Condor, where you AAARGH! CONDOR
• Heaven & Earth, a beautiful, emotional puzzle game about balance and finding your place.
• Lexi-Cross, a crossword game show set in the Paul Verhoeven cyberpunk future.
  
• Noir: A Shadowy Thriller, a lavish interactive tribute to film noir and 40s Hollywood.
• Wolf
• awoo
• Crystal Pixels, a lonely, meditative world made by one person just for themselves.
• The Frogs of War, a bizarre homemade lizard-robot multiplayer game based on a nightmare.
• Uncle Buddy’s Phantom Funhouse, a layered hypertext novel that peers into an ordinary fictional world and questions its reality.
• Lineality, a joke one-dimensional shooter.
• Enigma, the absurd puzzle game that no one will likely ever complete.

That is a lot, and there’s still more! I’m incredibly proud of what I’ve done with The Obscuritory this year, and I’m thrilled about where it’s gonna go in 2019. The year kicks off with a bang with the video game history panel track at Super MAGFest. And then I have a lot more things I want to share.

Thank you for reading! <3

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