Joanna Mueller, Author at Hey Poor Player

New ARG Hacking Sim From The Black Watchmen Devs

Hack The World Alice & Smith, the developers that have been bringing Alternate Reality Games to life for the past seven years, have announced the next installment of The Black Watchmen universe. NITE Team 4 is a strategy hacking simulation utilizing ARG elements. Nite Team 4 was already Greenlit…

Raise A Princess In Princess Maker 2 Refine

It’s Like Parenting, Without All The Gross Parts The Princess Maker series is credited as a “life simulation” where the player takes on the role of an adoptive father who must raise his new daughter into adulthood. The original Princess Maker 2 released back in 1993 and garnered a…

Wonder Boy Returns On Steam This Fall

New Take On a Classic Game The classic side-scroller Wonder Boy is getting a polished new look for its upcoming Steam release. Dubbed Wonder Boy Returns, the new version aims to keep the same feel of the original gameplay with newly designed visuals. The project is being developed by…

Event[0] Review (PC)

Become BFF’s With An Anxious AI Natural language processing is a cross section of computer science, computational linguistics, and artificial intelligence. It also happens to be the key game mechanic behind the newly released Event by Ocelot Society. Basically, natural language allows computers to understand and generate meaningful…

Ark’s New DLC Is Leaving Some Players Feeling Burned

Should an Early Access Title Release Paid Expansions? Last week Studio Wildcard announced the biggest update to rock ARK: Survival Evolved’s 14-months and counting, development cycle. ARK: Scorched Earth takes players away from the lush comforts of the Island and unceremoniously drops them naked, dehydrated, and starving in…

Connecting The Pixels: No Man’s Sky

Who Or What Is the Traveler? Now that people have had a moment to temper their rage about No Man Sky’s gameplay it’s time to start interpreting the lore elements. Sure we could go into the nature of the enigmatic Atlas, or perhaps what the ending might really…