Tag Archive | games
Wondering where I have been?
Tweet of the Day: At the Bias: Mansplaning and the Power of Naming Well I have been streaming! Yes, I have my own gaming stream channel and the game that I’m playing right now is Apotheon, a Greek Mythology based sidescrawler/platformer game. You can join the stream at 9:00 p.m. Eastern (U.S.) or catch […]
Tropes Monday: Tropes Vs. Women Comes to an End
Tweet of the Day: The Mismeasure of Media Tropes vs. Women, a web series helmed by Anita Sarkeesian has come to an end. Long time readers know that I was and still am a fan of the series due to its concise, critical analysis of tropes in the medium of video games from a […]
Interview with Matt Conn, designer of Read Only Memories
Tweet of the Day: Why Diverse Games: Starting Close to Home ——- I often write about representation, race, ethnicity, diversity in media. Now I had a chance to talk with someone knee deep in bringing the LGBT+ community to the larger gaming community: ——-
Tru-Fans(tm) vs. Consumers
Tweet of the Day: An Interview with Jim Sterling about sexism in game culture ——– The eternal struggle between the dedicated Tru-Fans™ vs. the Considerate Consumer: ——–
First Interview on my Channel
A quick update to let you know that I have posted the first interview with a game developer on my gaming You Tube channel:
First Mathsquad Podcast
Tweet of the Day: Purging the Fear ——- Another day, another podcast. This one tackles tabletop RPGs. So give it a go: ——-
Kingmaker: Atreius’ Diary
Tweet of the Day: First Mentor: The Social Media Jedi of WANATribe, Kristen Lamb ——– Waterday, Richfest, 599 CY Rita knows, she always knows. And that mischievous grin hasn’t left her face the whole day. Sure I came in late last night, or early this morning, blast the dogs for waking the whole house up, […]
TV Tropes Monday: Prisoner’s Plot Dilemma
Tweet of the Day: Why It Might Actually Suck to Live in the Harry Potter Universe ——- This is the second trope I’ve discovered yet I could not find on the TV Tropes page: the Prisoner’s Plot Dilemma. So, what is the Prisoner’s Plot Dilemma? It is when a character is: When a […]
Space for Rent: The Gordian Knot of Interactive Fiction
Tweet of the Day: Stop Saying You Only Care About Quality in the Same Breath That You Argue Against Diversity ——- It seems that the confusion between what is and isn’t a game continues. I heard two video game podcast struggle with that issue when discussing a new product called Everyone Gone to […]
Space for Rent:Ownership, Tribalism and Toxic Gamers
Tweet of the Day: When Your Favorite Writer is an Asshole ——– Or a Step too Far…. Lets backtrack for a second. Earlier this week an interview titled, “We Need Toxic Players, According to Orcs Must Die Developer“, popped up on The Escapist. In it the developer was quoted thus: “Haters gonna hate,” says […]
Neither Here nor There.... 