CW: Violence and suicide are mentioned. The term “memento” has a complex etymology. From the Latin for “remember” or “I remember,” memento may point to a sinister remnant or a “memento mori,” a physical reminder of the death that… Continue Reading
Hello everyone! Unbelievably, we’ve already arrived to March 2021, and with a new month comes a new show in the Serious Play franchise. (Maybe the Serious Play Cinematic Universe!) Every Thursday from 4-6pm CST, I’m going to be playing,… Continue Reading
As the Blog Director for Serious Play, I realized that I actually didn’t know that much about our blog site. I had no experience working with web design, I wasn’t sure how to write a “good’ blog, and WordPress just…… Continue Reading
Hi everyone! I’m thinking about writing about the link between the game Inside and abjection for a course, so I thought I’d take some time to write down my thoughts here. The player of Inside (2016) controls a nameless,… Continue Reading
For Lunch Zone last week, I played Everything, a game where you can literally control everything, kind of. I started as a star, soaring through space. This part of the game felt good. It took a while for me to build momentum… Continue Reading
Hello all! I just finished presenting a paper and gender, designed identity, and Nintendo Switch advertising, which is pretty cool. But instead of talking about that, I wanted to chat about a couple of things I learned from speaking in… Continue Reading
Hello everyone! (Today’s post is being done in conjunction with my live stream of Chrono Ghost at 12pm Central for Lunch Zone! Come join me as I play and talk about some critical race theory and some of the barriers… Continue Reading
So for the past couple of years I’ve been really interested in fan games, which really have not been discussed all that much in video game scholarship. Fan games are (for lack of a better term) slippery to define. Fan… Continue Reading
Just a little background: I’m new to the group and I’ve only been part of three Lunch Zones at this point. So I won’t be talking about streaming as part of Serious Play, but rather about me and my friends… Continue Reading