for the little things you might have missed
This is an article I wrote for First Person Scholar, a really awesome website that does work in the space between academic journals and popular games criticism. It's about a game that's very close to my heart for how it's helped me work through anxiety and depression.
From one angle, Team Salvato's (free) visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club looks like an attempt to capture a bit of Undertale's signature metafictional magic. A game that begins as a piece in a well-defined genre ends up being anything but—picking apart both the mechanical and narrative tropes that a player might expect from, respectively, a visual … Continue reading How Doki Doki Literature Club Paints an (Almost) Authentic Picture of Depression
I post a lot on here about culture, and games, and writing that makes me think—in essence, about all the things that make me love studying what it is I study. But every once in a while I turn off that part of myself, like I did a few posts back with Where Do Birds Go and my tribute to Gravity … Continue reading You Might Have Missed: Strange Desire
Sunset Over Ithaca 