In last week’s podcast, we talked a bit about agency and feelings of control when watching a movie or TV show versus feeling control while playing a game. Opinions varied, but I’ve been thinking about it a lot this week. I find that when I watch a movie or TV […]
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Undertale. Whoa. I started playing only for the same reason a professor reads a book before assigning it: You need to know before you teach, and something about preparation. I’d heard and read that Undertale (tobyfox) is one of the more popular Steam games right now, and rightly so: It’s pretty much a […]
Since we’ve been discussing Her Story again lately, I went back and replayed the beginning. The game initially seeds the player with four videos tagged with the keyword “murder,” and since the gameplay is built solely from searching keywords, I catalogued all the major options in these early videos, omitting articles and […]