Deep Listens Episode 14: Until Dawn and Genre Fiction in Games

Deep Listens is a gaming podcast series I'm recording with a few of my friends. Every two weeks we pick and play a new game and then discuss it from a literary, philosophical, and game design perspective. Its kind of like a book club for videogames. We try to dig as deep as we can on an individual game every episode so check it out!

In this episode of Deep Listens a special guest joins us to discuss the "teen horror movie" game Until Dawn. We discuss how the game attempts to blend movie tropes with gameplay, how the game handles mental illness, how the game uses native Canadian folklore, and whether life or death decisions are the only decisions that matter in a game about player choice. Also Billy had a lot of problems with the game.

http://deeplistens.libsyn.com/episode-14-until-dawn-and-genre-fiction-in-games