December 6, 2014 Eric Swain External Sources NPC – Non Play Criticism: Elegance It is a truism in video game circles of serious thinkers that video games are a young medium and that we are forging new territory with our criticism. That is of course bullshit in both respects. Video game critics are often cut off from other mediums. May perhaps that our medium is so new that more energy is required to get anything done as each new step is not just walking along a singular path among the fold, but having to stir and pour the concrete before a step may be taken. | more
December 3, 2014 Eric Swain External Sources ‘Unrest’: A Tug of War Between Player Knowledge and Character Knowledge December 3, 2014 | Filed under: External Sources, Recent Posts and tagged with: Moving Pixels, PopMatters, Unrest I played and reviewed Unrest, one of the cut paragraphs from that review turned into this post about the dramatic irony Unrest creates in the space between player knowledge and character knowledge. This is an extremely simplified version of the original post. For reasons I’m not going to get into this was post was supposed to be a short replacement piece for this week. | more
