March 26, 2013 Eric Swain External Sources

Changing Perspectives: Defining What We See in First Person and Third Person Games

And so comes to an end of a month looking at walking games with jaunt over to the Third-Person Walkers of last year Journey and Bientôt l’été. The whole idea of the first-person walking genre was from Kris Ligman or at least I thought it did until I tried to track down where she said it. It isn’t often that a year provides so many examples of a new genre. Especially one as diverse as this one. | more

November 7, 2012 Eric Swain External Sources

Discovering the Familiar in ‘Journey’

Journey is a game I’ve wanted to write about for almost the entire year, but have just never gotten around to it. What makes it difficult is after so much time, finding something new to say. The thing is, in trying to figure that out I wondered why I kept going back to play it after so long. Especially, since it is basically a game about exploration and yet, I pretty much knew everything it had to offer already. In the end that came down to trying to define what I was feeling on repeat playthroughs. | more