So, I went to a midnight premiere of That New Silent Hill Film.

( A whole buttload of spoilers. )

 Here's something I find really interesting about (the original four) Silent Hill games: their cross-cultural nature.

( cults cults cults )

I will give the games industry this: it has made tangible progress. The fact that games have gay options at all is a positive sign of the times- a decade ago, I would not have enough of a pool of reference to make this article in the first place.

That said: within the games that have a protagonist that is not obligatorily heterosexual, there is a ( Read more... )

I talk about game design and do amateurish criticism, and I plan on posting more of it here on Dreamwidth. For the sake of context, I'm going to use this post to link to all of the old writing on games and shit from my Livejournal days that I've got floating around.

Matters of Scale
The Medium Makes the Message
A Little History
Thoughts on Yaoi ( ( Read more... )

The current size of games is unfortunate ( Read more... )

A thought on the different media through which stories are conveyed.

Each one has a different set of constraints and capabilities. There is even somewhat of what I dare say is a hierarchy, ranging from most constrained to least constrained.

I believe it is something like this: Stage theater
Each medium has constraints that a creator must work with. ( Read more... )

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 you may have noticed but this is the actual shittiest dw journal

on the bright side, i will soon be posting more to 
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I realize that fireholly did a brilliant MG1 review/fanfiction to this basic extent already and I'm just beating a dead horse so there's no chance it will ever be revived as a zombie, but.

Looking back at the MGS series, the level of detail, realism, and complexity in gameplay directly correlates to the level of humanity/inhumanity in the warfare contained ( Read more... )

It's actually really liberating to be on LJ and posting again. I don't feel any particular need to tailor what I write to anybody, since nobody is likely reading these, and it moves at a pace I want to keep up with, unlike tumblr ( Read more... )