for the little things you might have missed
It's no secret to anyone who's ever booted up Steam that there are a lot of indie games in the world. I've even heard the suggestion that Valve should curb Greenlight—their crowd-sourced independent access program—at least for a while since it lets through so many subpar projects that it makes sorting the diamonds from the rough seemingly impossible. … Continue reading You Might Have Missed: Thomas Was Alone
Beyond Pokémon and Nintendo's other banner franchises, shooters have always been my favorite videogame genre. That's not to say they're all I play—I'll play anything I can get my hands on, and as of late I've played quite a few more indie games than big-budget FPSes—but they've more or less become my comfort zone when it comes to … Continue reading Overwatch: A (Super)hero Shooter with (Super)heroic Heart
It's not often that a film will leave me at a loss for words. Mustang, a foreign film co-produced by France, Germany, and Turkey (in which it's set), defied every expectation I'd had for how I'd feel when it ended. I knew it had been well-received, that it had won awards, that it had been nominated for a … Continue reading Mustang: Beautiful Filmmaking in Its Rawest Form
Here's a question you've probably heard before; what makes a game, a game? And for that matter, what makes any piece of art in any fictional medium (to name just a few examples: literature, poetry, film, television, comics, music, visual art, dance), distinctly a piece in that medium? Sure, we can say that literature is written prose, and … Continue reading Firewatch, and the Changing Definition of Video Games
I apologize to my absolutely zero readers for not posting in the past two weeks. I would say I had finals, but this is probably what the intervals will be like. Not that you care, you lovely nonexistent people, you. I also apologize for the fact that probably my first several posts will be video game-related. … Continue reading Race the Sun: How to Write a Game without Writing
I'd considered starting a blog like this before—a place for me to write about, and in essence review, everything that I play and watch and read—but nothing had ever been quite good enough to give that final push. Until now. Undertale, developed in its entirety by musician and game designer Toby Fox, first leapt onto my radar … Continue reading Undertale: Are You Filled with Determination?
Sunset Over Ithaca 