A Profound Waste of Time - Issue 4

APWOT returns with its fourth issue to open a lushly illustrated portal into the videogames industry and the people and culture that define it. Featuring an extensive interview with members of the Portal 2 team, Silent Hill creator Keiichirō Toyama, Dotemu and many more!

In this Issue

• 13 years after its original release, Eric Wolpaw, Jay Pinkerton, Mike Morasky, Tejeev Kohli, David Sawyer, Ellen McLain, Joshua Weier, Richard Lordand Karen Prell from the Portal 2 team reflect on the iconic first person puzzler's development journey and long term legacy. An in-depth oral history of one of the most beloved games of all time.
• Endless Scroll: How game studio Dotemu revived the beat 'em up genre for a new generation through titles like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge and Streets of Rage 4.
• The elusive creator of Mega Man, Akira Kitamura, has contributed to this issue. After leaving the franchise 30 years ago, he reminisces about when he joined Capcom in 1985, and how Mega Man’s design was built around the hardware limitations of the time.
• Will Freeman gives us an analysis of graffiti as an art form through the lens of its integration into games over the last two decades. Featuring interviews with Jet Set Radio’s Ryuta Ueda, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk’s Dion Koster, Concrete Genie’sDominic Robilliard and more.
• Safe Room: The Importance of the Videogame Sanctuary - Margaret Robertson explores the concept of the Save Room, a player's proverbial oasis in the digital desert.

Specifications

• 210 x 270 mm
• Perfect bound
• Litho print
• Die cut aperture special edition with bonus art
• Printed on 150 gsm Munken Lynx
• 190 pages