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Gods in the Machine
This is a letter from God to man.
Hey there, how’s it going?
Long time no see.
Plowshares into Skyhooks: The Evolution (Intelligent Design?) of Bible Games
Frequent readers will note my intimate familiarity with the Evangelical subculture. We had our own hit novels, our own major motion pictures, and, of course, our own games.
Upon the Face of the Waters
I’ve crafted worlds before, as a dungeon master and writer, and I enter new worlds each time I download a new game. All of these have their own metaphysics, rules and boundaries.
Tomb-Raider: The Virtue of Desecration in Skyrim
Skyrim encourages the player to trample through burial grounds and disturb the remains of those who lie within. A lot.
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
BioShock Infinite and the little Baptist church I went to on Sunday have relatively little in common, save that they both came along exactly when I needed them.
His Uneffectual Fire
What follows are two different ways of looking at games, two approaches which seem both mutually exclusive and completely correct.
Be Careful
Be careful, little ears, what you hear
Be careful, little ears, what you hear
For the Father up above is looking down in love
So be careful little ears, what you hear
Stereotyping in Assassin’s Creed III
During a recent playthrough of Assassin’s Creed III, I realized how full it is of cultural stereotyping, and began to wonder what it might be saying about my nationality.
The Call of Leviathan: Mass Effect and Lovecraft
While it’s impossible to deny Lovecraft’s influence upon Mass Effect, there is a fundamental dissonance between this influence and the game’s overall structure, which goes all the way down to its roots and gnaws at them like Nidhogg.