“Some pain stays so long its absence becomes a different pain -” Kaveh Akbar I’d be willing to die on the hill that as long as the independent ARG scene has existed, some form of the “stuck in my house”[1]… Continue Reading
Introduction Throughout the Legend of Zelda series, protagonist Link, and by extension the player, interfaces with specific objects and items to interact with the game world. While many of these items can be used as weapons, like the Master Sword… Continue Reading
{Cross-posted} I have something of a confession to make. I’m a big Final Fantasy fan. It’s one of the series that got me into videogames back in the SNES days. Throughout high school, during the “PlayStation era,” those games… Continue Reading
Hello everyone! It’s been a little while since I’ve posted here, mostly because last semester was really really rough. Long hours, busy days, and nary a drop to drink. But now I’m back and kicking! This semester, my show, Fan… Continue Reading
A/N: This post is an experiment in writing a serial ludotravelogue. Hey Janelle, what’s a ludotravelogue? Uh, I don’t know yet? Stay tuned? An exercise in flying by the seat of your pants? A travelogue that focuses on my travels… Continue Reading
It’s October and that means, like every other person worth knowing, I’ve been consuming only the spookiest of entertainment media. In the case of videogames, I started the month circling back to some survival horror titles I had missed (namely,… Continue Reading
So let’s be honest everyone. I’m busy. You’re busy. And I’m so so so tired. However, I love sharing my work on this blog so I’m gonna post a little research I did last semester about some interesting examples of… Continue Reading
The following is an example paper I wrote for my students in a Videogames: history and theories course. You can find the instructions for the assignment here. Catherine: Full Body (2019) is a “romantic horror story” in which a… Continue Reading
“You see the journey starts here, the real fun starts here, when everything changes…” – Evan Jennings as Habit We’ve charted a course through two alternate reality games on Serious Play. We investigated the voyeuristic view of This House has… Continue Reading
…At the center of a low dishonest decade where selves grow immense, then shrink… – David Wojahn Let’s start with a simple question. What is this thing (Figure 1.0)? Well, in the world of Code Vein this little object is called a… Continue Reading