Ark of the Lost Angels

So, I looked at the blogs of two of my classmates today, just to see what they were doing. Andrew’s, titled “Feedback in Pixels” and Tori’s titled “Shades of Pink.” The first thing I noticed was that they both were organized, eye catching without being overbearing, and easily navigable. It…

So, I’ve been playing Life is Strange, and I have to say that I’ve been adoring the game. I know the game predates it, but the idea of playing with time has been stuck with me since “Effect and Cause” in Titanfall 2, and so having a game built around…

Brendan Caldwell is a writer for Rock, Paper, Shotgun. I looked at a few of his articles recently. I think anyone writing about games is adding to the canon, even if their thoughts consists of “y sucks, x was so much better” and the following year, “z sucks, y was…

Bioshock may be one of the greatest games of all time. Personally, I’m more partial to Infinite because Elizabeth is one of my favorite characters of all time, and the 1912 setting is fascinating to me, but Bioshock sprinted so Infinite could take off like Sonic the Hedgehog. And Bioshock’s…

2017’s Titanfall 2 had one of the most engaging FPS campaigns in recent years, despite being relatively cookie-cutter in terms of narrative structure. The first reason was that with the first Titanfall game being a multi-player only game, with a “campaign” made up of multiplayer matches with expanded animation, added…

I finished The Walking Dead game, and had some thoughts regarding the ending. I chose to have Clementine shoot Lee, giving him the peace of mind in dying instead of becoming a threat to his friends, allowing him to pass in peace, relatively speaking. It also served as the conclusion…

In Katherine Isbister’s article “Nonplayer Characters – ‘Living, Breathing’ Others in the Game World” she asserts that “Accomplished game developers use a range of social cues from NPCs to produce feelings in players, putting NPCs into powerful and consequent social relationships with the player/avatar.” This idea is something I have…

Recently, I had the fortune of playing What Remains of Edith Finch. The game follows Edith Finch as she returns to her family’s home, the last member of the Finch line still alive, and has to piece together what happened and uncover the nature of a mysterious family curse that…

There’s the idea held by several people that cutscenes are a method of storytelling separate from the main gameplay, and it’s lazy as a tactic. The argument is that you could excise every cutscene from a multi-hour long campaign and tell just a competent story as you could with the…