Jesse DekelJesse Dekel

Jesse Dekel watches cartoons and plays video games. She puts on gigs in Wellington, and doesn’t play multiplayer games - because you need friends to play them.

I became Dracula: How Metroidvanias helped me self-isolate

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Metroidvanias are some of the most notoriously difficult, directionless games in existence, but for Jesse Dekel, they were a rock during a rough time at sea. The very first Game Boy Advance I destroyed was one of those clear-blue ones. I smacked my 8-year-old head into the thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display screen with the force of … Read more

The sorry state of multiplayer

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Multiplayer gaming has moved from the lounge to the headset – and it’s not necessarily a good thing. Jesse Dekel writes about where multiplayer gaming is now, and why she’s never really enjoyed it. For me, it really comes down to this simple assessment: developers and publishers have apparently decided they’d rather not integrate multiplayer … Read more