{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
“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
“I do not Dunkey, but I might have Spaghetti and meatballs if you ask nicely” Landon from GameStop Recently, the Lunch Zone crew and I got around to playing Heart of Enya – which is a game with relatively… Continue Reading
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
During Coffee Break last week, I demonstrated an aspect of a programme I have been writing for Dungeon Masters. This programme will allow a group of DMs to build a world together, which is stored on an SQL Server.… Continue Reading
Given the interest in last week’s episode of Lunchzone, I thought that I would put out a public version of my dungeon generator with a brief outline here on how it is to be used. The post is divided into… Continue Reading
Originally, this post was going to be an exploration of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot as a JRPG—and I guess it’s not…not that, in some ways—but then I finally finished the Kakarot main story and thought it would be a good… Continue Reading
So this coming week marks the first week of a new show I’m running called Keeping it 100 (💯). By streaming (at least) once a week for (at least) a couple of hours, I’m going to play through a game… Continue Reading
What in-game and in-person elements determine how much time we’re willing to spend on a particular objective, narrative, or sequence in a game? Similarly, how does a player’s relationship to the time passing within a game and the time passing in the… Continue Reading
Serious Play August 7, 2019 In the room: Nathan Humpal (playing), Kelly Brajevich, Josh Rivers, Thomas Malaby; online: Serious_Play, GameScholar, ludologue, and one other. It’s August and the academics are warming up for the start of seminar season three weeks… Continue Reading