August 25, 2010 Eric Swain Critical Responses, Recent Posts In Defense of Ludonarrative Dissonance First off, no this is not a retraction of my opinion (which I was apparently the sole defender of) that Ludonarrative Dissonance is a bad thing for a game to have. Instead, this is a response to the growing antagonism towards the term itself. There is plenty of it about, most recently from a post of Corvus Elrod's over at Semionaut’s Notebook. I wanted to write this right away after reading it, but other commitments kept me from doing so at the time. | more
August 20, 2010 Eric Swain Recent Posts, Thoughts I’m Done and Now I’m Back I've been only lightly using the internet and got pretty much away from the site due to my summer class. The last class I needed to graduate. Well, I passed it this week and minus all the bureaucratic nonsense it will take to transfer the credits to Boston University I am a college graduate. Hurray for me. Anyway that means I'm getting back to reading my backlog, playing my backlog and back to writing. If I have my way I'll be start posting again next week. | more
