Category Archives: Symposium

One of the earliest pieces of “serious” games criticism that I can remember reading on the internet was a sprawl of text from Tim Rogers about Earthbound, a role-playing game released for the Super Nintendo in 1995. Pinballing wildly from … Continue reading →

For our May Symposium, we’ll be talking about The Last Guardian.  I imagine we’ll spend a fair amount of time comparing the game with Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, but I’m particularly interested in talking about Trico, comparing them … Continue reading →

Everything. Everything in its right place. The system has a task. A task and a purpose. For incremental games like Universal Paperclips, that task and that purpose becomes our own as we become both the rules of the system and … Continue reading →

For our December Symposium, I’d like to talk about Nier: Automata.  I’m particularly interesting in linking it to our recent discussion of Her Story and, especially, Tacoma: discussing the games’ different approaches to viewing the same scene from multiple characters’ … Continue reading →

The November Symposium will be on Her Story, hosted by Pat Holleman. In Pat’s words: Thursday’s game will be Her Story.  I want to say as little about it as possible, because it is such an unorthodox game.  As of … Continue reading →