Hey everyone, another summer mean another game-analysis essay. This one was written for the game design course that I decided to take for fun (which ended up getting me a job with the professor!!) so it's more focused on design than my previous work. Anyways, enjoy! Geometric Psychoses: Level Design in Psychonauts When critically examining video games, much of the focus is often reserved for th...
The Permanence of Death and the Military Fantasy in Games War, violence, and death are some of the subjects most frequently tackled by video games. The reason behind this stems from the much larger question of why people play video games at all. According to many gaming-centric forums and websites, games can provide a form of escapism, a power fantasy, or even a way of relieving anger and stres...
[Reposting For Posterity - I have another, much longer and more in-depth video games paper in the works] Hey everyone, here's a paper that I wrote for my Videogames as Theory Class. The video series that GiantBomb ran about the development of Bastion was instrumental in helping me write it, so I figured why not share with the GB community. If you guys like this kinda stuff leave some comments a...
With Starcraft 2 on the horizon there's been a lot of talk about how strategy games have evolved over the years. The best strategy games of the last few years have been the ones with a much smaller scope like Dawn of War 2 , and yet I don't think that this is a sign that strategy genre has changed, merely that there is a new genre starting to appear; let's call them Strategy Role Playing Games...
Anyone who disagrees needs to hear kleiner's "start having sex again" speech from ep1
I love it espescially the banner