Failing... With Style
Ruberg brings up a great example of games that subvert the expectation of failure as a bad thing when referencing the Burnout series....
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SPENT And actions without consequences
The game "SPENT" sets out to build empathy for the millions of Americans with limited career options. In part it succeeds, but as a game...
Crowdsourcing and Adorable Insects
One topic that came up a significant amount in discussion this week was crowdfunding games, and one specific point that was brought up...
Possibilities for Counter-Cultural Games
As Dyer-Witheford and de Peuter illustrate in the first chapter of Games of Empire, videogames began as a subversion of...
A Dark Souls post
With our discussions this week about the roles failure can have within a game's mechanics and procedural rhetoric, I think it would be...
Opacity and Direction the Game Production
We've talked a lot about the impact of video games increasingly becoming more of a widely marketed and socially accepted form of media....
Final Project words
Now that we are all likely well into working on our final project, whether that be a game or an abstract, we are experiencing the...
The Fun in Failure
Failure has such a heavy and negative connotation, and unsurprisingly so. After all, normally in life, once you fail something, you are...
Dys4ia's Avatars
We talked a decent bit in class about the variety of avatars used in Dys4ia to represent Anna Anthropy's experience as a trans woman....
What About Queer Triumph?
I've been interested in the peculiar negative valence of queerness in the course's syllabus since we read the Whitney Pow piece on...
Determining the right amount of failure
After Tuesday's lecture on failure in video games, I thought about some of the games I have played. A game that immediately came to mind...
When the Limited Edition is Better than the Original...
I'm glad that the syllabus accidentally linked to Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: Limited Edition because in my opinion, it is more...
Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment - What do I get out of it?
In playing Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Punishment, I found that the message the game tries to send is somewhat unclear, and makes the...
The Ancient Greeks Were Some Real A**holes
In our week of failure, both the class and our readings talked extensively about how failure can be an important aspect of success....
The Corn Conspiracy
During my time playing Third World Farmer, I accidently played an earlier version with slightly worse graphics. However, what really made...
Is Cheating Misguided?
The one topic I feel is a bit left out of our conversation on failure (and maybe gaming in general) is cheating. Especially when reading...
The role of failure in games where we cannot fail
I found Ruberg’s “Playing to Lose: The Queer Art of Failing at Video Games” to be a super fascinating article, piecing together of...
Make Your Own Failure: The Nuzlocke Challenge
The mainline Pokemon games are not difficult. You might even describe them as "big dumb baby games for big dumb babies." I know this...
Area Man Primes Everything, Kills Emotions and Burns Down House In Process
Tomorrow Corporation's 2012 game Little Inferno lacks the "Game Over" screen that many gamers are familiar with, and this lack appears to...
Playing to Win in SPENT
The first time I played SPENT, I was somewhat subconsciously compelled to attempt to act in a way consistent with my personal beliefs and...
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