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Thoughts on Spec Ops: The Line
This review is spoilerific. If you intend to play this game and take in its full impact, come back later. Spec Ops: The Line is a game about games. If Journey was the most spiritual game I’ve ever...
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Shoes!
I love the color and saturation in this shot, I wanted to give a strange sense of relaxation to this one. View full size.
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The Global Game Jam
Tomorrow starts one of my most anticipated weekends of the last few months: The Global Game Jam, a 48-hour game-making competition. In one chaotic and stressful weekend, impromptu game development...
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UNHEARTED
PASTICHEPASTICHEPASTICHEPASTICHE So, yeah… my second Global Game Jam was friggin’ awesome. I ended up going with my friends Catherine and Esteban to prepare a game within 48 hours that would be...
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I Like Games
One thing that has sat on my bucket list for a while is to give a TED Talk. If I were to do one, it would be on video games and how awesome they are and why everyone should at least care about them. I...
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Shooting on Infrared
So I’ve been shooting on a Canon Rebel 2000. Its a fun camera to use. I picked up a rare roll of Ilford 200 SFX Infrared film, a special effects black and white film used for art-photography that...
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Thinking about the Playstation 4
Gut reactions! Bullet points! Killzone 4 Are we reaching the point where graphics can get no better? The visual leap between console generations is far subtler than in previous cycles. Adding polygons...
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Stuff I’ve Been Playing Recently
I’ve been doing games a lot recently. A lot of them are good, some of them are bad. A lot of them are digital console games, others are not. First up was The Walking Dead, this is a narrative point and...
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Thoughts on Saints Row: The Third and Ludonarrative Dissonance
In the initial moments of Saints Row: The Third, irrelavant backstory is introduced with the Star Wars Title Crawl to the tune of the 2001: A Space Odyssey. The game then cuts to a gang assault in an...
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Bioshock Infinite is a Metacommentary on the Nature of Video Game Storytelling
I’m going to spoil a lot of Bioshock Infinite for all of you, so beware this blog post if you’re planning on playing this game. Bioshock Infinite is a game about a lot of things. Bioshock Infinite...
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Thoughts on Surgeon Simulator 2013 and The Future
So if you haven’t heard, there’s been this weird little indie game that has been going around Steam recently called Surgeon Simulator 2013. It originated as a project made at the 2013 Global Game Jam,...
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Self-Reflexivity in Video Games
This is an essay that I wrote for William Huber’s class at USC Interactive Media’s “Critical Theory and Analysis of Games”. Its a bit disproportionate in the readings of the games it deals with, but...
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Pictures I Took Recently
Wow, has it seriously been three months since I last did a photography post? Down Market Street in San Francisco This shot has probably been done before. But I shot it. More dramatic shot from Market...
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Nascence: A Reflection
This is a reflection about my first year at game school. Its long and reflective, deal with it. I try not to have second thoughts about entering this industry. We’re riding the wave of Ludus...
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An Ill-Advised Rant on the Next Console Cycle
These are my gut reactions to the XBox One press conference. Forgive me if I can’t predict the future. People predict that this next console cycle will be the last of its kind due to the proliferation...
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Writing for the Artifice: The Role of Narrative
The Artifice So I ended up getting an offer to write for a crowd-sourced online arts & culture magazine named The Artifice. It’s a British project that seems to have gathered quite a following a...
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More Ranting on the Xbox One
Like most of my friends, I was disappointed at the reveal of the Xbox One, an ill conceived focus on mass-media led to a massive communication mess-up that fomented ill-will towards Microsoft. I can...
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Thoughts on E3 2013: Day 1
Today was… oh hey wait, have you checked out my latest article for The Artifice? Give it a look, its about the Games for Change festival happening next week. Today was… bonkers… I followed much of the...
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Thoughts on E3: Day 2 – Creators of Childhood Memories
All the press conferences have wrapped up and all that’s left for now is for each of the companies to exhibit their upcoming games. Nothing quite as eventful or dramatically over-the-top as yesterday,...
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Thoughts on E3 2013: Day 3 – A Tangent on Great Games Journalism
Now that no new information is going to be revealed over the threat of the graphical plateau driving development costs to destructive heights, we can officially say that the drama of the press...
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