Where Dys4ia Fails
While I think Dys4ia is a lovely game that tells a strong story about a personal experience, some class discussion prompted me to...
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On the Experimental Potential of Games: A Play-Centric Response
At the end of Thursday's class, we discussed whether there still exists an experimental potential in videogames. Many comments focused on...
Competitive Failing
Blizzard's Hearthstone is a virtual cardgame developed by Blizzard interactive. In the game, each player plays as a class of hero from...
Spectacular Failure and the Angry Video Game Review
The readings this past week on failure in gaming left me thinking a lot about playing to fail and the celebration of failure. Anable...
A Love Letter to Little Inferno
Before the course ends, I just wanted to write a little note to one of my favorite games of all time, and attempt to understand why it...
Spent: choice-failure tension and litmus test
I thought the class discussion concerning Spent raised two interesting themes: 1. In games that attempt to get the player to engage with...
Two cents on Spent
Spent has problems - here's the one I've been thinking the most about after Tuesday's discussion. If I die a lot in dark souls, I don't...
Replicating Anxiety in Dys4ia
I want to start off by saying I really loved playing this game. It was nice to see a semi-positive take on a queer experience, since we...
"You" Made into Queerness
Queers in Love at the End of the World uses the second person in a way that asks the player to assume queerness. The second-person “you”...
Romantic Failure
Queers in Love at the End of The World deeply affected me. Maybe it’s because I’m a romantic, or maybe the simplicity and timed window of...
Video Game Counter Culture and Where to Look
As a 21 year old, the idea of counter culture eludes me. Outside of maybe emo alt rock I have never heard the term. Based on its...
Failure and Acceptance
On aspect of failure I think was not examined closely enough in our discussion of failure was exactly what constitutes failure. One half...
Ancient Greek Punishments and Failure
By nature Ancient Greek punishments are unwinnable. Designed to last forever the Ancient punishments were simple tasks that are extremely...
I kinda liked SPENT
In class, there was contention over the effectiveness of SPENT. I wanted to talk a little bit about why the game was effective to me and...
Against Overthinking
It took me about a dozens plays to understand Anna Anthropy's "Queers in Love at the End of the World". 10 seconds is so little time to...
Failure vs. Inevitability
For those who play competitive online games such as League of Legends, Overwatch, or CS:GO (just to name a few), failure is certainly...
A Different Kind of Torture
Having an eagle feed on your liver every day would be painful, to say the least. Physically painful. And to say that rolling a boulder...
From Problem Attic to Dys4ia: The Potential for Gamification
In this penultimate week of an awesomely curated game class, something I really appreciated was the game Dys4ia by Anna Anthropy, and the...
More to Say on Game Spectatorship
The unexplored profits of mass appeal. As my group presented on spectatorship, I thought there was significantly more to say (like most...
You Can Never go Back: Failure in Little Inferno
The game Little Inferno really stuck with me after I beat it in preparation for Tuesday's class, but I was never really sure why. We were...
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