Tag: Exploration

The Land of the Lacandón is Thankfully Not A Land of Confusion for the Locals Encountering Civilization For the First Time

The release of The Land of the Lacandon offers a great look at what it means to be a storyteller. Whether that’s with Bernard de Colmont’s search for the last Mayan tribe in the Yucatán or the aftermath, this read offers a stepping stone to further exploration

The Land of the Lacandon Book Cover
Available to purchase on Amazon USA

McGill-Queen’s University Press

Bernard de Colmont’s contributions to society are many. Although he’s better known as the founder of Club 55, a famous beach resort in Saint-Tropez, this worldly gentleman had other interests. Back in the early part of the 20th century, he explored the Yucatán Peninsula. What’s recounted in the graphic novel In The Land of the Lacandón is the search for the last survivors of the Mayan empire! Just how he survived is not as exciting as Indiana Jones but in what he makes fascinating is in how he paved the way for future explorers to learn about the culture hesitant in greeting him.

Without this amateur archaeologist’s film footage, this world may have disappeared. When he presented his findings at home, the people who attended his lectures responded with applause. Although the result afterwards had the attitude of traditional colonials wanting to take over, without this “discovery,” these people might disappear altogether. Thankfully, because of him and later on, historians Richard Ivan Jobs and Steven Van Wolputte put together an informative work that budding anthropologists can read to witness this world like it is new.

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In Rewinding Games’ Wild Demo of Roots Devour, Playing a Hungry Monster is Easy!

And we know which entity the player’s avatar will become in the intro to Roots Devour! Read on for our spoiler regarding whom that Great Old One is.

Roots DevourSpoiler Alert

Roots Devour is a puzzle solving game by Rewinding Games set in some dark woodland area, where players can play the villain! It borrows from H.P. Lovecraft‘s writings and perhaps Evil Dead too. That’s because the creature I’m playing had to seek not-so-innocent vertebrates to drink their blood! They give form I’m in the required essence to survive and grow. As the name suggests, it’s about extending a living tree’s roots to as far as they can go!

What’s effectively creepy is the fog of war which envelops this game. I’m never within it, and unless I extend the roots to explore, what’s revealed are either difficult terrain or playing cards. They represent either various aspects of a dying forest or victims I can either drain or have to figure a way around! This maze took more than a few tries to reach any place meaningful. Continue reading “In Rewinding Games’ Wild Demo of Roots Devour, Playing a Hungry Monster is Easy!”