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Tunic developer Andrew Shouldice has made no secret about his love of The Legend Of Zelda over the years. He’s not only spoken at length about how playing the original pair of Zelda games on the NES provided ample inspiration for his crafty hack and slasher, but you can also see it right there in the game itself, from your fox hero’s bright green outfit to the beautifully illustrated in-game manual you piece together to unravel the world’s mysteries.
But speaking with Shouldice at GDC this year, I wanted to talk to him another other potential source of inspiration. Before he struck out on his own to make Tunic, Shouldice cut his teeth making hidden object games, ranging from globe-trotting mystery adventures to Atlantean-themed detective stories. On paper, this earlier work would appear to provide the perfect proving ground for Tunic, as we all know by now that it holds plenty of secrets of its own. For Shouldice, though, it was more of a reaction against his earlier work that fuelled his approach to Tunic, as he gradually came to realise his hidden object games “weren’t tapping into this very specific type of mystery and discovery and player agency and true exploration that I was interested in,” he says.
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Priced at around $5,500 and famously outselling Tesla in China, it’s a tiny, comically square car, produced in joint partnership with General Motors and SAIC. The micro EV has been fodder for articles and YouTubers — even while it’s remained unavailable outside China.
Until last summer, that is, when Wuling attempted to go international. First stop: Indonesia. With its Air model selling at a mere $16,000 — less than half the price of alternatives — the minimalist EV was depicted in advertising as a gateway to the future, a slick solution for busy Indonesian city-dwellers.
Six months later, the Wuling Air now dominates EV sales in the country, according to the Association of Indonesia Automotive Industries (Gaikindo). Since entering Indonesia last August, it’s sold some 8,000 vehicles. The number may be small compared to the manufacturers’ sales figures in their home turfs of the U.S. and China, but it’s equivalent to 78% of the EV market in the Southeast Asian country….
It’s not perfect; customers complain of battery failure and the anxiety of finding charge points. But the price tag counts for a lot…. A $48,000 Nissan Leaf or Hyundai Ioniq is way out of most Indonesians’ price brackets. But a Wuling — $16,000 for standard range, which lasts 250 kilometers on a full charge, and $20,000 for long-range, at 450 kilometers — is achievable.
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Dredge is one of those games that comes along that almost defies conventional description. It’s a trading and exploration sim like Elite, but with a tropical Wind Waker aesthetic, and a page-turning horror story told in the style of a visual novel. It’s all of those things, and yet, nothing you can compare it to really does it justice, because it’s really about the atmosphere.
Each component part of Dredge is highly competent in its own right: the bulk of the minute to minute gameplay is concerned with you operating as a jobbing fisherman. You fish, you earn money for ship upgrades, you fish more. Then there are special contracts and sidequests concerned with obtaining items of note from the depths, which could be a rare type of corrupted or mutated fish (more on that later), or a piece of treasure from a sunken galleon – the titular activity coming into play.
This all feeds into a fascinating main quest concerning the hunting of artefacts, which gives you cause to venture further and further from the tiny vestiges of civilisation that cling to this doomed region, to explore the outer reaches of the five island groups. The more you travel, the more exotic the plunder, and more specialised the equipment needed to harvest it.
DEAR DEIDRE: I USED to be my girlfriend’s whole world but these days I don’t get a look in.
I’m 32 and she is 29. We’ve been together for four years and our beautiful baby boy was born eight months ago.
Since the birth, all of her attention is on our baby.
I understand babies need a lot of care and attention, but I feel invisible.
My partner makes excuses if I offer to take him for a walk, saying he needs a nap or a feed or some other excuse.
I’m not allowed to bathe him because, according to my partner, I won’t handle him correctly.
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I’m missing out on bonding with our baby.
I now can’t get through a single day without feeling resentful.
I’m having horrible thoughts about my partner.
It’s making me feel like I’m a bad person.
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DEIDRE SAYS: Becoming a parent often puts a strain on relationships, no matter what they were like before.
It’s important to make time for each other when you can.
Do little things to make each other feel cared for and included.
Your partner can’t read your mind. Your lives have changed, and you have to talk about it.
Agree a schedule including activities where you are the sole carer for your son, whether she goes out or you do.
Explain that it’s important you are given space to bond with him.
She may resist at first, but hold firm.
You are no less your baby’s parent than she is.