✒️ Have a Read of my Media Essays!

I play a lot of games and consume a lot of media, and oftentimes have a lot to say about them. So here, I'll be posting some of my personal, and academic essays, where I talk about some of my favourite games and media.

Hopefully you will find some resonance with them, and through my writings, feel the same sort of inspiration that they inflected onto me. Enjoy!

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📝 Essay Collection

🎓 Academic Essays

• 🌧️ Weathering the Rain World - Emergent Subjectivity and Transcorporeal Entanglements in Rain World's Playable Ecology

• 👍 Connecting Toward a Future - Asynchronous Collaborations and Affective Communities in Death Stranding and Elden Ring

• ✋ Deferring Narrative Authority - Agency Against Unreliable Narration in Game Narratives as a New Form of Writing

• 📺 Perpetuating Digital Landscapes - The Dissolution of Information Through the Framing of Digital Landscapes in Late 90s Media

✏️ Personal Essays

• ⛵ Curiosity Killed the Sailor - How Dredge Explores Humanity's Need for Companionship

• 🧗 Mechanics that Explore the Narrative - How Jusant Highlights Themes of Naivety and Ignorance through Liberating World and Mechanical Design

• ⌛ Altruism in Temporal Space - How Tenet and Undertale Highlight the Fragility of the Human Experience Using Implied External Narratives

• 🌹 Player Intuition as a Catalyst for Change - How Decarnation and Slay the Princess Utilize Player Perception to Empower Agency within their Narratives

• 📹 Horrors of Virtual Ignorance - How the Blair Witch Project and House of Leaves Forego Medium Assumptions to Create Unfamiliar Terror