At the Alliance Française Hyderabad library, jazz found an unexpected companion on Saturday evening: anime. As teenagers and adults settled into the cosy space, the room slowly filled with conversations about music, anime and the connection between the two, especially the jazz sounds that often slip into the background of your favourite show.
In my 30+ years of playing video games, I’ve seen plenty of poorly implemented or wholly unnecessary high-score systems.I enduredBalloon Fight’s miserly scoring, which infamously refused to award extra lives no matter how many points you racked up. I’ve experienced the half-baked accounting of Mega Man’s North American release, which nominally awarded points for defeating…