The Magic Circle drops you into the skeleton of an unfinished video game trapped in development hell, hands you a toolset of enticing powers, and asks you to repair a broken universe torn apart by ...

The Magic Circle is another entry in the burgeoning but fascinating subgenre of games about the process of making games. Most games in that niche tend to aim small, often taking up the perspective ...

Can a videogame poke fun at game creators, teach you something about how games are made, and make you a more empathetic human being, all in the span of a few hours? Yes, yes, maybe, and it's ...

The Magic Circle will undoubtedly have a lot of the developer's experience and worldview balled up inside it (and that of his partner at Question Games, Stephen Alexander, another Irrational man ...

SEATTLE -- "I've been in game development since 1998," says Jordan Thomas. "I've been through many cycles of games, I've gone through the entire curve of cynicism and idealism and back out the ...

Far easier to applaud the game's core gameplay invention, which enlivens The Magic Circle at its heart, and a piece of design that, unlike Ishmael Gilder, will surely find a life beyond its game ...

The Magic Circle is a game about making games. I sampled it back at GDC 2014, and it was, quietly, the most fascinating project I got to see at the event. I've thought about it a hell of a lot in ...

There are a lot of toys to play with inside The Magic Circle, and many of its puzzles are designed to awaken your inner game designer, forcing you to tackle them in unconventional ways.

“The Magic Circle” conspires to challenge video game culture from the inside, taunting players and developers alike. “The Magic Circle” is set in an incomplete fantasy RPG that is itself ...

The Magic Circle, announced today, is a PC remake of a 1980s text adventure.The new game is being developed by the original game’s author, Ishmael Gilder, who promises to “bring everything you ...