Video Game Review – Mýrdalssandur, Iceland

TL;DR – It was a fantastic experience from an execution, experience and price point perspective

Score – 4 out of 5 stars

Mýrdalssandur, Iceland. Image Credit: caves rd.

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These days, video games can be created by vast teams with hundreds or even thousands of people working to bring a vision to life. However, there are still those games, or in that case more of an experience, that is the focus of a single creator’s vision. Today we look at just such a case with Matt Newell’s Mýrdalssandur, Iceland.

Now I should make clear right from the start, this is not a game, but more of an experience of walking around the titular Mýrdalssandur that you can find on Iceland’s southern coastline. It is a place of wondrous beauty and stark contrasts of green moss and black volcanic rock. If this sounds familiar to you, then it is likely that you have seen it before in Rogue One or other similar films.

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Explore It – A Walk Down the Wynnum Esplanade on a Beautifully Overcast Autumn Afternoon

TL;DR – Today I explore the beauty of the Moreton Bay coast, a short drive from the Brisbane CBD
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As a child, one of the things you would do on a weekend was make the trek down to the Wynnum foreshore and run along the Esplanade, play in the pools, and eat fish and chips as you swat away the circling seagulls. This is something that I haven’t done in years so when a group of friends suggested going down there for dinner I decided to go a bit early to explore the place, now almost a lost memory for me. Now of course life tends toward chaos, so on this day gone is the usual Brisbane sunshine, as the rain clouds came running up the coastline. However, clouds aside this was still a wonderful, if not a slightly damp time.

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