My woke in your face: for more politicised and imperfect games
2024. You could say that the video games industry is on fire. Not in the ‘it’s cool’ sense, but literally burning before our very eyes. Studios are closing, developers are being laid…
-
-
What’s an atmosphere ?
“What mediates between the objective factors of the environment and the aesthetic feelings of a human being is what we call atmosphere.” – Makis Solomos Definitions Atmosphere is a term that comes…
-
1000 jeux/month #1 | Submersion
1000 games per month One thousand. That’s the average number of games released each month in 2023. One thousand games, and that’s just on the Steam platform, so we’re not counting exclusives…
-
A short history of transmedia
Transmedia, crossmedia, shared narration, extended universe… So many terms for different types of stories, adventures to be experienced and shared! But how do you make sense of it all? At a time…
-
The divine child of The Pyrénées
Pyrene is a chemical compound with the formula C₁₆H₁₀. It is produced by the combustion of organic matter, and is one of the toxic substances found in cigarette smoke. A substance I…
-
1000xRESIST: The legacy of wrath
In the complex and saturated world of contemporary video games, 1000xRESIST emerges as an exceptional work, weaving together a set of themes as diverse as the transmission of trauma, narrative dilemmas, cultural…
-
Disability, Neuroatypia, Phobia, …: Video games beyond entertainment.
Disclaimer: this article deals with an area that belongs, in part, to medicine. Although I originally trained as a paramedic, I’m here as a columnist. I have tried to source as much…
-
Behind the screen:video game developers facing greed and ignorance
Saving kingdoms on the brink of collapse. Survey vast, shimmering fairytale lands. Serve as a forest ranger with only the soothing voice of your walkie-talkie for company. These are just some of…
-
Indika or the Labyrinths of Faith
O Indika, young nun in the heart of icy Russia, what does your weak, sinful nature have in store for you? What will your cursed flesh have to endure, wrapped in thick…
-
Harold Halibut: when getting bored becomes an art form
There’s something about being bored, even if we’re not all equal when it comes to boredom. We’ve all experienced moments of weariness so profound, so dense, that they seem to alter relativity,…
All posts are shown