What is Past is Prologue
Laying the foundation for more talk about narrative as a game mechanic, but this time with semi-concrete examples. Plus huge spoilers for Portal 2!
Good for the Gander
I do some backpedalling of my own.
Guilt by Dissociation
On complicity, faux-feminism, and how not to be an asshole on the internet (and real life).
Are You Experiences? (And have you ever been games?)
Narrative can too be a game mechanic, as long as you familiarize yourself with how narratives work, and you don’t have an overly strict definition of “game.”
Snow White and the 4 8 15 16 23 42 Dwarves
The series Once Upon a Time is part Fables and part Lost, which makes me wonder why I ever believed I wouldn’t get hooked on it.
Making Money from the Network, or, The Workers Control the Means of Promotion
Disagreeing with a guy as nice as Jonathan Coulton seems like a bad idea, but I’m going to do it anyway
Welcome to the schlock
Fox’s new series Alcatraz somehow manages to be less than the sum of its parts.
A Cookie Filled With Arsenic
Sweet Smell of Success is a classic movie with one of the greatest screenplays in the history of cinema. The Duellists is… not. I don’t understand why The Castro decided to run them together.
Works for Me!
Boneheaded responses to piracy are getting more subtle but no less boneheaded
Responsibility
An open letter to Senator Barbara Boxer and Senator Dianne Feinstein, supporter and co-sponsor of the PROTECT IP bill and supporters of SOPA
Lore on Demand
Repressed memories dredged up by Skyrim, and reconsidering some assumptions about storytelling in videogames
Heart Felt
We’re long past due for sincerity to make a comeback, and The Muppets are the perfect ones to bring it.