The Art of Hoa
Hoa begins with infinite sweetness. Our heroine, a little fairy in a red coat, lies on a leaf drifting on the water. She finally reaches the shore. As soon as she sets…
Hoa begins with infinite sweetness. Our heroine, a little fairy in a red coat, lies on a leaf drifting on the water. She finally reaches the shore. As soon as she sets…
You know that feeling? The one that grabs you by the gut and won’t let go. That feeling of emptiness you want to avoid at all costs. You’re looking at that game…
Folklore around the world Horror games are legion, but there’s also a sub-genre inherited from cinema and literature: folk horror. And far from being a source of terror alone, folk horror is…
“You absolutely must play this game!”. “What? You’ve never played such a game? How is that possible?”. “What do you mean you didn’t like it? No, you just didn’t understand. Wait, I’ll…
To manipulate To hold an object in one’s hands while using it in any way; to maneuver a device, to make it work with one’s hand; to subject something to various treatments,…
It all begins and ends Opening scene. A young woman observes ancient elements on the wall, holding a basket of flowers. The camera pans away, revealing her to be in a crowded…
Axioms I won’t beat around the bush, Final Fantasy XV is a game I’ve had a lot to do with. When the game was announced in 2006, I remember the excitement of…
| Liminal Space | by Pier-re Lova-ti What if video games could help us understand other fields of artistic creation? To have a revealing effect on the nature of the images that…
After dissecting what “ambience” actually means in my previous article, we concluded that ambience cannot be deliberately created in reality. However, fortunately for video game developers, it is possible to invent one…
“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…