Just over a year ago, a YouTube channel began uploading a Let’s Play of an unknown video game called Petscop. The game, according to the narrator who calls himself Paul, is a long-lost PlayStation title developed by a little-known studio called Garalina. Petscop is apparently unfinished, as Paul is quick to point out in the … Continue reading Let’s Plays and the Evolution of Storytelling in the Digital Age
“Do you know why I wanted to interview you?” I was taken aback. After spending several hours the night before with my head buried in my copy of Gayle McDowell’s “Cracking the Coding Interview”, I was ready to take on any programming problem this guy would throw at me. Typically, with these kinds of interviews, … Continue reading Accessibility: Designing Games for All
A community is a group of people who share a common interest in a particular topic or hobby. A successful community is one in which its members share not only a common interest but also a mutual commitment to one another, a comradery or fellowship of sorts that thrives on the interactions between individuals, and … Continue reading MyIGN: A Gaming Community
Agency (noun): the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power. When we talk about the greatest games of all time, we often only talk about the games that were in one sense or another “innovative,” games that did things that have never been done before, thing that were unique or interesting, thats … Continue reading The Importance of Player Agency
About a month and a half ago, I fell into deep depression. Having left behind the comfort of my sunny southern California home in pursuit of a graduate degree over 400 miles north, I struggled to find peace of mind in a new, high-stress environment. My lack of confidence, friends, and a social safety net … Continue reading How Golf Story Helped Me Through My Depression
