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Writing N' Video Games is our answer to our growing frustration with how little time there is to talk about games during the day.  We, mainly Gabe and Ben, used to spend too much time on campus talking about games when we should have been brushing up on our middle English pronunciations.  Between classes, we would talk about how many times we planned to play through Dragon Age or starting a YouTube channel.  Gabe and our partner Mercy have a small armada behind a gameplay channel, Huffle N' Stuff.  This is our literary module to this machine, where we can talk about games in an open-ended way, one that hopefully encourages more discussion.  What do we find every game has to offer?  What tension does the most relaxing game have, or what do those triple-A games do well, if anything?

 Gabe tends to write smaller, broken up posts on pretty large scale games: Mass Effect, Red Dead Redemption 2, etc.  He'll play any game with a strong narrative.  Ben delves into how design choices keep him interested, including an unnecessary amount 2D sidescrollers, First Person Shooters, and then every other type of game.  No matter what we're writing about, we again aim to further discussions to be had, not end them.  Dive into an article, check out the backlog, and enjoy.

 Here is Gabe's flag. 
                                                                               

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