The medium is the message, as they say. A statement that stretches to cover any form of media, but the media type that I think it applies to is games through the lens of critical play. That is to say that “Critical Play is built on the premise that…

Resilience is an indie title created with the goal of conveying the day to day struggles that refugee camps face to an audience that most likely never has or never will experience, and does so by putting the player in the role of a manager of an alien refugee camp…

I think regardless of intent or what a lot of studios say about their own games or what a lot of players say about games a large majority of story driven games have a political stance or at least a political lean. Its an inherent part of society and…

In my last journal I took a look at a glitch in a game, which is probably the first type of thing that comes to peoples minds when they think of the term glitch. Something accidental that…

To me a glitch, in terms of videogames, is anything that occurs in a game that is outside of the intended functionality of what the game is trying to do. This can range anywhere from textures going missing…

In terms of art mods for games one topic that always seems to be a common theme is commentary on real life events. That theme continues with the…

Minecraft is possibly one of the most heavily moddable games on the market, and has been getting modded since the earliest days of its public releases. And while I’ve played around with plenty of mods that change the game in very perceivable ways, from adding guns or…

Half Life Alyx released in March of 2020 and quickly came to be known as not only a worthy entrant into the Half Life series, but also as one of, if not the best narrative experience in VR. Almost more importantly though, only two months later in May Valve…

(Video went over 5–10min because I ended up finishing it while recording) Endless Express is a (sadly unfinished) game centered around exploring an open cartoony world through the means of a train system that runs on a real-time schedule. Each train stop has a unique location with unique characters…