Games and Demos Made Right in the Stack’s Back Yard This past weekend, Stack-Up attended one of New England’s largest conventions for game developers outside of PAX East. The Boston Festival of Indie Games (Boston FIG) has been celebrating the creativity and ingenuity of independent game designers for almost a decade. This year featured almost a hundred upcoming and recently released games, almost all of them created by New Englanders! At MIT’s Johnson Athletic Center, the Bo

Perception: Embrace the Darkness in this Unique Horror Game Have you ever been afraid of the dark? Prepare to relive that fear. The Deep End Games’ first title Perception throws players into the eyes of the blind, forcing them to wander a haunted mansion using little more than sound and wits. At PAX East, Stack-Up managed to play a demo of this bold twist to horror games. You’ll first notice that this game is dark—in more ways than one. You play as Cassie, a young blind woman