Category Archives: Symposium

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 →

We had some good preliminary conversation about what exactly we (or anyone) might mean by the term “walking simulator,” in relation to What Remains of Edith Finch. Though the original, pejorative intent behind the phrase seems to me unhelpful, the idea … Continue reading →