Archives

Eric Swain External Sources

The Moving Pixels Podcast Plays ‘Pyre’

This week, we talk about Supergiant Games’ most recent offering, the fantasy fire Basketball simulator, Pyre. Nick stated before the recording of this episode that he didn’t want it to bloat into a behemoth like our What Remains of Edith Finch episode did. It’s a fair thing to ask given that he has to edit them. As such, our discussion is mainly centered on the big picture ideas Pyre presents rather than digging down into the nitty gritty character narratives. | more

Eric Swain External Sources

Critical Distance Confab – Minisode 15 – Horror Games Mark II

The latest minisode is up on the Critical Distance Confab. Returning for another horror themed episode is my associate from the Moving Pixels Podcast, Nick Dinicola. I haven’t played a lot of horror games recently, so I went with the one I had played, Stories Untold. It was the game we chose to do for our Halloween episode of the Moving Pixels Podcast, which ended up coming out on the same day. Ironies of irony, given that this is a podcast about highlighting games nobody is talking about, the day prior Campster released a video talking about it. | more

Eric Swain External Sources

The Moving Pixels Podcast Tells ‘Stories Untold’

For Halloween this year, we look at the horror text adventure anthology Stories Untold. It’s an interesting game that deserves a lot more people looking at it. Is it good? Well, it’s got a lot of good things in it. Again, we ended up looking at a game that I hope is influential in future titles that pull off what it did, but better. You can also find the first tale of this “anthology” as a standalone title on itch.io. | more

Eric Swain External Sources

Critical Distance Confab – PostMesmeric

Alex Carlson, the subject of this month’s interview on the Critical Distance Confab, and his channel PostMesmeric is a relatively new find for me. Because YouTube can only find it in itself to recommend videos I’ve already watched (multiple times) it closes off a lot of what is out there to me. I can’t find new channels and voices because the system does not allow you to know they exist. This is bad enough for channels that have enough subscribers to count as a following, but for small channels like PostMesmeric such treatment is a sentence to toil away in obscurity. | more

Eric Swain External Sources

The Moving Pixels Podcast Discovers ‘What Remains of Edith Finch’

This week on the Moving Pixels Podcast, we discuss Giant Sparrow’s sophomore game, What Remains of Edith Finch. This is a long one folks. It always seems the denser video games are the ones we take longer to discuss.  At the time, I felt we kept going around in circles over the central reading of the game, but it didn’t seem that way when listening to it. There is just that much to talk about in What Remains of Edith Finch. | more

Eric Swain External Sources

The Moving Pixels Podcast Discusses ‘Tales from the Borderlands Episode 5’

Weeks later, we finally finish up our mini-series of episodes on Telltale’s Tales from the Borderlands. This podcast episode did not go the way I thought it would. See, Nick had steadily become more and more hyped on the game with each passing episode. So, I figured episode 5 would continue our enamored love fest of the game, while trying not to retread all the jokes in it, as with the previous episodes. I did not expect the contentious argument regarding the game’s conclusion that would result. | more

Eric Swain External Sources

Critical Distance Confab – Heavy Eyed

Last week, we released our next podcast interview with one Mitch Cramer aka HeavyEyed on the Critical Distance Confab. This Kiwi (is that derogatory? should I just go with New Zealander?) relatively new voice on the scene and our discussion is mostly about him finding his footing as a critic. We are rapidly approaching the present with this series as Mitch only started near the end of 2015. It’s getting to the point where there just isn’t enough material or work to talk about for the people who started so soon, relatively speaking. | more

Eric Swain External Sources

The Critical Distance Confab Minisodes Are Back

August 31, 2017 | Filed under: External Sources, Recent Posts and tagged with: Critical Distance, Podcast Yesterday, I published the first minisode in over a year for the Critical Distance Confab, the Critical Distance podcast. Instead of just advertising the fact that minisodes are back, I’d like to take this chance to go over the whole story behind them: the behind the scenes thinking that went into them, why they left and why they’re now back. | more

Eric Swain External Sources

The Moving Pixels Podcast Goes Crazy in ‘Knee Deep Episodes 2 and 3′

This week we finish up the swamp noir, theatrical play, adventure game Knee Deep with episodes 2 and 3. Can a game be so bad it’s good? I don’t know, but Knee Deep is definitely a game that’s so bad it’s interesting. I know the angry video game critic is … (This post is lost beyond this point.) The Moving Pixels Podcast Goes Crazy in 'Knee Deep: Episodes 2 and 3' » PopMatters "After all, you can drown in knee deep water, if you stand on your head." | more