Comparison Reflection

This essay was definitely the most traditional, analysis-heavy piece we had to write, asking us to formulate an essay looking at two of the many games we played in class and show how they dealt with trauma and emotions. Although it was “traditional,” the essay was still nothing like the boilerplate five paragraph essay that

Making Notes New

This week, we had to make visual notes, taking what we had written down before, and converting it into a more appealing, “flowy” version of itself. My friends and I also infused elements from anime to make important information “Pop” compared to others. This was really fun, while also

I Want to Know Who Let Me Emotionally Scar Myself By Making This Cheesy Reenactment

We had to recreate a famous scene from a movie this week, and I wanted to pick one from the best actor in one of my favorite movies: Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. I may have hammed it up a little bit, but this was my attempt at a monologue that earned Heath Ledger a

Who Knew That Making a Game Would be Harder than Criticizing Them?

Over the last few classes, my group had been spending time in developing a concept for a video game of our own! This whole time in class, we have been playing and dissecting games from the perspective of players, but now we got to experience what it was like to put a story of our

Fantasy Football: More Than Just Sports Betting

This week we had to produce our final podcast episode. Its crazy to think that we are basically at the end of the semester! In addition to this, our game project is also due, so my group decided divide and conquer. As a challenge, though, we wanted to pick a game that wasn’t a true

Super Mario 64: Learning to Explore Our Own Castles

This week, it was time for round two of producing the class podcast The Longest Rainy Sunday. Last time, we had the daunting task of making the first episode. Now, more episodes have been produced, we now know what our show should generally cover when it comes to analyzing a game. This time though, we

Minecraft: A World To Make Your Own

This week we were tasked with writing and producing the first episode of our class’s podcast: The Longest Rainy Sunday. For this inaugural episode, my group decided to do a game we unanimously appreciated: Minecraft. This task seemed really easy at first because Minecraft’s sandbox structure makes it a versatile game in which a player’s

Unpacking Myself

“Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.” -Writer Francis Crawford This quote by Crawford is most likely meant to be a metaphorical statement on how everyone has their own perspective and world view that they bring along, but I believe this quote also works as a literal examination of why

My Homecoming Experience

Start Game 9-13-20 2250 Just started the game, and am already not sure if I should have started so late at night. I’ve played Horror simulation games like Outlast before, and I want no part of that experience – but looking up game reviews I hope there is nothing like that! 2310 Looking through Sam’s

Brain Pollution

This photo was a combination between the Factory from the cover of Pink Floyd’s Animals with brains overlayed atop. This aimed to stay true to the theme of the songs of my favorite Pink Floyd album, talking about the perils of a materialistic society, and the dangers of always playing a cog in the capitalist