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Adrian Chmielarz

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Adrian Chmielarz

Beyond “Beyond the Aquila Rift”

Only one episode of Love, Death + Robots is rated higher on IMDB than Beyond the Aquila Rift, and that’s a Lovecraftian, David…

9 min readAug 2, 2022

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Beyond “Beyond the Aquila Rift”

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Crunch: The Reality Check

“Not sticking to deadlines is the management’s fuckup, and never the fault of the graphic artists, programmers and others working on the…

6 min readOct 16, 2020

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Crunch: The Reality Check

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Metro Exodus

The most intriguing thing to me in Metro Exodus is how the game ignores it’s a threequel.

5 min readFeb 25, 2019

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The Puzzle of True Detective Season 1

True Detective resonated with me the way no other TV series ever did.

11 min readJan 15, 2019

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Bloodborne, Part 1: How One Sentence Defined Your Entire Experience

I cannot stop thinking about Bloodborne, and I reckon that any game designer who finished the game feels the same way. It’s not just one of…

6 min readMay 2, 2018

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God of War did many things wrong, and it does not matter

It’s been a year since I wrote anything here, but finally a certain game inspired me enough to jump to the keyboard again. That game is, of…

10 min readApr 30, 2018

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What Remains of Edith Finch

Despite my current fascination with mechanics, emergent gameplay and player freedom, I still try a narrative game — that’s a walking…

4 min readMay 11, 2017

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What Remains of Edith Finch

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Are Video Games Political?

Good question, but let’s start one floor higher. Some people claim that:

8 min readMar 2, 2017

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Virginia

First I liked Virginia, then it turned to be kind of meh, and then I hated it with the power of a thousand suns.

9 min readJan 18, 2017

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Firewatch

The moment I knew that me and Firewatch were not going to be friends happened very early in the game.

5 min readJan 16, 2017

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Adrian Chmielarz

Adrian Chmielarz

13.1K Followers

Creative Director @ The Astronauts (Witchfire, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter). Previously Creative Director @ People Can Fly (Painkiller, Bulletstorm).

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