On relearning how to play with intention — Control Resonant, a swan dive back into Pokemon through fan games on the Steam Deck, and a few plans for a spookier October.
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A September tempo reset — on the thesis grind, loss, burnout, therapy, and the slow, honest work of finding my way back to the things I actually want to create.
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The harsh red and black, alongside the stark image of a blindfolded DJ Próvai really set a darker tone for this project that really juxtaposes the bold, proud, celebratory aesthetic of Fine Art.
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Howdy folks. It's been a minute since I've posted up on any sort of blog, and I've been meaning to get back around to this for sometime now - so needless to say I'm very happy to writing this little update.
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By generating such ideas, these digital landscapes enable the fragmented dissolution of information, and the control of information by external forces by proxy. By normalizing these ideas, such examples of media both expose but also inhibit these developments within digital spaces.
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Both Tenet and Undertale propose a temporal continuity that so vastly overshadows our own, yet exposes us to them through very grounded, human experiences — highlighting the importance of the unimportant, as it is all subjective upon our own altruistic motivations.
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Dredge evokes a feeling of dread-sparked curiosity. You're simultaneously lulled into a false sense of humble security while also stirred with suggestions that something bad, that you can't even imagine, is out there.
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When we lack the need for suspension of disbelief, we can truly be exposed to visceral, heart-stopping terror. This very same sensation is captured in the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project — and in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves.
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In a market oversaturated with mediocre open world games, Jusant embraces linearity by saturating its world with detail — detail that contributes to the entire tone and narrative in tandem with the mechanics to allow for a fulfilling experience in what is otherwise a story about climbing up a big tower.
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By having the player's personal perception of the game world constantly play so much in the deciphering of puzzles and mechanics, when the narratives revolve around trusting oneself and keeping your core values above those who objectify and surround you, the player can truly appreciate the inner workings of these narratives and connect to the characters' thoughts directly.
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A dreadful fog had crept over the still town of Black Hill in the early morning of what would become the parish's final congregation.
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It's been a year and twenty seven days since the power went out, though admittedly it's been harder to keep track the further we get from outage day.
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Both The Stanley Parable and Slay the Princess develop a relationship between the player and the narrator which challenges both their roles in the text and the authorial intention behind said roles. Both these texts resist closure and finality by allowing the pursuit of multiple narrative ends in accordance with the player's response to the narrator's instructions.
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The medium of video games is one that has grown to allow players to explore diverse subjectivities through game worlds that often destabilize the centrality of the human.
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On asynchronous mechanics, affective communities, and the way Death Stranding and Elden Ring let isolated players grapple with uncertain futures together.
Continue reading On relearning how to play with intention — Control Resonant, a swan dive back into Pokemon through fan games on the Steam Deck, and a few plans for a spookier October.
Continue reading A September tempo reset — on the thesis grind, loss, burnout, therapy, and the slow, honest work of finding my way back to the things I actually want to create.
Continue reading The harsh red and black, alongside the stark image of a blindfolded DJ Próvai really set a darker tone for this project that really juxtaposes the bold, proud, celebratory aesthetic of Fine Art.
Continue reading Howdy folks. It's been a minute since I've posted up on any sort of blog, and I've been meaning to get back around to this for sometime now - so needless to say I'm very happy to writing this little update.
Continue reading By generating such ideas, these digital landscapes enable the fragmented dissolution of information, and the control of information by external forces by proxy. By normalizing these ideas, such examples of media both expose but also inhibit these developments within digital spaces.
Continue reading Both Tenet and Undertale propose a temporal continuity that so vastly overshadows our own, yet exposes us to them through very grounded, human experiences — highlighting the importance of the unimportant, as it is all subjective upon our own altruistic motivations.
Continue reading Dredge evokes a feeling of dread-sparked curiosity. You're simultaneously lulled into a false sense of humble security while also stirred with suggestions that something bad, that you can't even imagine, is out there.
Continue reading When we lack the need for suspension of disbelief, we can truly be exposed to visceral, heart-stopping terror. This very same sensation is captured in the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project — and in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves.
Continue reading In a market oversaturated with mediocre open world games, Jusant embraces linearity by saturating its world with detail — detail that contributes to the entire tone and narrative in tandem with the mechanics to allow for a fulfilling experience in what is otherwise a story about climbing up a big tower.
Continue reading By having the player's personal perception of the game world constantly play so much in the deciphering of puzzles and mechanics, when the narratives revolve around trusting oneself and keeping your core values above those who objectify and surround you, the player can truly appreciate the inner workings of these narratives and connect to the characters' thoughts directly.
Continue reading A dreadful fog had crept over the still town of Black Hill in the early morning of what would become the parish's final congregation.
Continue reading It's been a year and twenty seven days since the power went out, though admittedly it's been harder to keep track the further we get from outage day.
Continue reading Both The Stanley Parable and Slay the Princess develop a relationship between the player and the narrator which challenges both their roles in the text and the authorial intention behind said roles. Both these texts resist closure and finality by allowing the pursuit of multiple narrative ends in accordance with the player's response to the narrator's instructions.
Continue reading The medium of video games is one that has grown to allow players to explore diverse subjectivities through game worlds that often destabilize the centrality of the human.
Continue reading On asynchronous mechanics, affective communities, and the way Death Stranding and Elden Ring let isolated players grapple with uncertain futures together.
Continue reading