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Category Archives: Video Games
On Heart of the Swarm
Yesterday I closed out my writing for the end of the semester and decided to attempt to finish up Heart of the Swarm. Heart, or HOTS as it is sometimes known, is the Zerg (read: space bugs) campaign follow-up to the Terran … Continue reading
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Tagged heart of the swarm, starcraft II, video games
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I was on Gamechurch talking about games and religion
Just a quick post that I forgot to make a while back: I was on the Gamechurch podcast a while back and I think that it is a pretty good talk overall. We chat about the south and what it … Continue reading
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Tagged gamechurch, interview, video games
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Line Hollis on King’s Quest IV and Manuals
It’s funny. I was raised on these games, so there was definitely a time when I was a dutiful manual reader. I remember excitedly yanking the manuals out of the game boxes on the way home from the computer store. … Continue reading
Johnnemann Nordhagen on Sup Holmes? talking about defining “
A really great explanation of edge cases and boundary policing that really makes you wonder why it’s all that important to bother when you could be thinking or doing literally anything else.
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Lorne Lanning’s Anticapitalism
Lorne Lanning developed the Oddworld games many Mudokon-hand moons ago, and they’ve been running through my head since the first time I played Abe’s Oddysee. That game hasn’t really left me, either, and I can trace a lot of my youth-then-adult feelings about … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, lorne lanning, oddworld, video games
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On “Liquor, Bond, Dark”
Cara Ellison and Irene Koh just created a new short comic called “Liquor, Bond, Dark” that takes Joanna Dark and James Bond and drives them forward into the future. They’re the videogame versions of themselves, divorced from that existence but … Continue reading
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Tagged cara ellison, goldeneye 64, irene koh, james bond, joanna dark, perfect dark, video games
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Grand Theft Auto III and Gamer Memory
A transcript/just a script that I read: Grand Theft Auto 3 looms large over the past fifteen years of gaming. It sold itself on the idea that you can do everything, and it broke the concept of “open world” into … Continue reading
Posted in PLAYER KNOWLEDGE, PLAYER/KNOWLEDGE, Video Games
Tagged gamer memory, grand theft auto III, grand theft auto V, video, video games
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L. Rhodes on Gone Home
If, then, you are receptive to it, the videogames’ interactions do more than just lead you through a linear series of events that might have been communicated as effectively (if not more so) as a prose novella. Similar to the … Continue reading
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Tagged detective, gone home, l. rhodes, narrative, video games
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The Unbearable Videogame
Today I am at The Midwestern Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference giving a talk. I’m posting it and the slides that accompany it up here on the blog for all to see! When I have time, I am going to make this … Continue reading
Posted in Theory, Video Games
Tagged conference paper, the unbearable, theory, video games
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Support Dames Making Games and Their Trip to GDC!
This is a weird moment where I take time out of my extensive Weird Stuff [TM] blogging and relentless self promotion in order to promote a super deserving organization. Dames Making Games, a Toronto-based group that supports and promotes games … Continue reading
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Tagged dames making games, game development, women
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