October 13, 2014 Eric Swain External Sources Hardboiled Hijinks The summer doldrums ticked away and so we went back to talk about an indie game from 2013: Gunpoint. As we found there was little to grab onto with regards of our usual in-depth discussion about craft and theme, but we still managed to find things to say about style and tone. Overall, I think Gunpoint is a fine game. Not an exceptional game, not one I’d leap up and down and say you have to play it right now, but a fine enough game that leaves a pleasant feeling after having played it. | more
June 24, 2014 Eric Swain External Sources More Thoughts on a More Complex Form of Moral Choice in Video Games I felt I needed to pick up on a thread regarding video game morality and clarify some things from last week’s PopMatters column. For some reason when I was expressing my love for the complexity in a moral choice in The Wolf Among Us against the normal bland good/evil dichotomy, it was confused for me saying that it was great that that one dichotomy was replace with a law/chaos dichotomy and that was somehow commendable. Especially when I said that this particular choice went against the grain of how we think of law vs. | more
