Tag: games
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How Videogames Solve Art’s Oldest Problem
Read more: How Videogames Solve Art’s Oldest ProblemGame of Goose, by José Guadalupe Posada The videogame is a young artform. It’s roughly 500,000 years younger than architecture; 72,936 years younger than art; and 4,061 years younger than literature. An odd road it’s been from the Kalambo River wood structure, Leang Karampuang cave painting, and Epic of Gilgamesh to Steve Russel’s Spacewar! Despite…
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Cheap Thrills: the Unsettling Nature of Portal
Read more: Cheap Thrills: the Unsettling Nature of PortalI would like to preface this article by imploring that you play Portal, as my summary of the events and descriptions do not do the game justice, and the full experience can only truly be attained as a player. Recently I found myself unable to stop thinking about a 4-hour long puzzle game developed by…
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Kid Icarus: Uprising, Revival of a Franchise but Revival of a Myth?
Read more: Kid Icarus: Uprising, Revival of a Franchise but Revival of a Myth?Last time I went on a bit of a romantic tangent talking about Kid Icarus 1986 and how it adapts the Greek myth of Perseus, leaving the more obvious comparisons to other Greek myths for this piece. Namely how the protagonist of the series, Pit, looks a lot like Eros, better known by his Latin…
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Games Teach Us Life Lessons Too!
Read more: Games Teach Us Life Lessons Too!Image by Bungie® Since I was 10 years old, I have been playing games on the Xbox consoles. The first game I played was Halo, an American military science fiction franchise by Bungie, with about 8 main games. In these games you work together in “Fire teams” and defeat aliens (The Covenant) and other players.…
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Beginnings: Sable’s Coming-of-age Tale
Read more: Beginnings: Sable’s Coming-of-age TaleCredit for the images in the article goes to Shedworks. It is a fresh new year for Writer’s Block with a wholly new board, and so it truly is a new beginning for us all. As we are finding our feet and discovering how we will work as a team, how to meet the expectations…
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