Tag: Comparison

Eric Swain Game Essays

Following Fogg: Adapting ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ into ’80 Days’

Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days is a Victorian era adventure novel following the exploits of Phileas Fogg and his valet Jean Passepartout in their attempt to win a wager. Done as a series of episodic exploits that take place in various countries along the route, it’s easy how one could adapt the book’s structure into a video game. However, a novel written in the 1870s is not something that will work as a video game in the 2010s. Not the least of which is the book’s very imperialistic vibe. | more

Eric Swain Game Issues, Recent Posts

An Act of Non-Consequence

I've been on a documentary binge as of late (Thank you Netflix) having watched 6 in the last 24 hours at the time of writing. As it so happens while watching them, I noticed a correlation in the behavior of the subjects of the majority of the documentaries and players of video games. The documentaries in question, or rather the aspects of the documentaries I'm going to talk about, all deal with the idea of responsibility. Of course it's very easy to point to who is responsible, but then the question becomes 'why did/do these things happen in the first place? | more