About this episode

The episode discusses the game BioForge, its gameplay mechanics, and its place in gaming history.

BioForge is an also-ran in the world of Alone in the Dark clones, telling the story of a man who wakes up augmented into a cyborg on an alien ship. But you use the NumPad to kick, so everything neat about it goes out the window. It WAS, however, featured in a book called “1001 Games to Play Before You Die”, and boy is that list suspect.

Topics covered

• video games
• cyborgs
• sci-fi
• game design
• retrospective

Keywords

• BioForge
• Alone in the Dark
• cyborg
• alien ship
• video game history

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: BioForge, 1001 Games to Play Before You Die, Alone in the Dark

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