Players take on the role of Blank—a young boy in training to be a Creature Keeper. Creature Keepers are warriors who work together with monsters in order to defend the land and maintain peace. However ...

Elizabeth Carrington Morris (1795-1865) of Germantown, Pa., loved her garden, her “Eden for the birds and bees,” as she liked to call it. She was partial to even its humblest inhabitants. What ...

The Roman historian Sallustius, also known as Sallust, hit on a crystalline formulation to describe concepts that we know to be fictional and unreal but that nevertheless loom large in our ...

Creatures of Ava introduces itself as a lovely, casual adventure game that lets you explore an idyllic planet while attempting to save its creatures from disease, but is also more than willing to ...

At first glance, Creatures of Ava may seem like a simple exploration adventure involving taming wild creatures, but the overarching story delves into many philosophical themes and explores how to ...

With Creatures of Ava, Inverge Studios and Chibig have set out to create a creature collector that strays from the genre’s common tropes and pitfalls. Creatures of Ava is more concerned with telling a ...

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

I was pretty interested in trying out Creature Keeper because, as I’ve mentioned before, I’ve felt like the Pokémon series has gotten a bit stale, and I’ve long relied on the Indie scene to approach ...

With or without realizing it, many gamers adjust their expectations accordingly when approaching indie games versus AAA ones. After all, it makes sense to hold games made with millions of dollars and ...