Ways of Playing: LSD: Dream Emulator

Ways of Playing: LSD: Dream Emulator

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TW: There is some strobing and flashing in this video, and the field of vision in the game may cause some viewers discomfort.] Welcome to the debut installment of Ways of Playing, the new Sufficien...

Ways of Playing: LSD: Dream Emulator

my very first critical lp video is up!

May 22, 2015 08:53:10

Notes on Oneiric Gardens: Watered in Retrospect

May 31, 2015 12:24:49

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Notes on Oneiric Gardens: Watered in Retrospect

I wrote a review in verse about Lillith Zone's Oneiric Gardens.

The link is pasted in the body because Patreon's URL field is broken and if I try to use it the CMS won't let me save a post

May 31, 2015 12:24:49

Beyond the Sea: Subtext and Environmental Storytelling in Ecco the Dolphin

June 1, 2015 03:58:51

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Beyond the Sea: Subtext and Environmental Storytelling in Ecco the Dolphin

June 1, 2015 03:58:51

Pat Gann This is going to force me to play Ecco. Never did finish the Genesis title as a kid. And there are others on Saturn and/or Dreamcast, IIRC. Can't wait to read it!

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Episode 7 of the Sufficiently Human Podcast is up!

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New guest post! Game designer Lulu Blue muses on the empathetic storytelling of Majora's Mask.

June 30, 2015 07:05:51

Notes on The Midas Project: The God Within Us

July 1, 2015 03:58:03

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Notes on The Midas Project: The God Within Us

A close-reading review of eoeoeo344's dystopian sci-fi visual novel, The Midas Project, stylized as a short story.

Apologies for the delay on this. June was really brutal on me and it was tough to get back into the swing of things. I hope you enjoy the piece.

July 1, 2015 03:58:03

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Guest Post: The Fate of a Nobody: An Absurd Reading of Kingdom Hearts II

July 16, 2015 02:27:57

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Guest Post: The Fate of a Nobody: An Absurd Reading of Kingdom Hearts II

Brian Crimmins connects the tenets of Absurdism to the journey of Roxas in Kingdom Hearts 2

July 16, 2015 02:27:57

Against Flow

August 1, 2015 03:51:53

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Against Flow

I short-ish rant about the obsession with "flow" and the tendency in games to pathologize subjective player experience and explain away "affect" as something which can be measured or tabulated.

August 1, 2015 03:51:53

Notes on SURREALISTa: The Nostalgia of the Infinite

August 1, 2015 03:53:43

Notes on SURREALISTa: The Nostalgia of the Infinite

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This piece contains heavy spoilers!] It would feel like a categorical mistake to focus on SURREALISTa as a "puzzle platformer." Strictly speaking, it contains both the ludic devices of puzzle-solvi...

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Notes on SURREALISTa: The Nostalgia of the Infinite

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This piece contains heavy spoilers!] It would feel like a categorical mistake to focus on SURREALISTa as a "puzzle platformer." Strictly speaking, it contains both the ludic devices of puzzle-solvi...

Notes on SURREALISTa: The Nostalgia of the Infinite

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A review of Gigoia Studios' SURREALISTa.

August 1, 2015 03:53:43

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August 1, 2015 06:59:00

On Genre and the Ludic Device

August 31, 2015 20:57:12

On Genre and the Ludic Device

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I've been wondering about genre labels like "first-person action-adventure procedural puzzle game with platforming elements" for some time now. I've been wondering if they describe anything in part...

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On Genre and the Ludic Device

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I've been wondering about genre labels like "first-person action-adventure procedural puzzle game with platforming elements" for some time now. I've been wondering if they describe anything in part...

On Genre and the Ludic Device

http://sufficientlyhuman.com/archives/1008 i talk about alternatives to how we think of game genres

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Coherence and Dissonance

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It's about time I addressed this as an essay. When I mean to refer to a game's internal consistency, logic-or lack thereof-I say "(in)coherence." When I mean to refer to the unification of a game's...

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Coherence and Dissonance

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It's about time I addressed this as an essay. When I mean to refer to a game's internal consistency, logic-or lack thereof-I say "(in)coherence." When I mean to refer to the unification of a game's...

http://sufficientlyhuman.com/archives/1006 i talk about the difference between consonance/dissonance and coherence/incoherence and why that's important to understand.

August 31, 2015 21:27:19

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Guest Post: Theatre, Artifice, and the Flawed Emulation of Cinema

September 26, 2015 23:29:21

Guest Post: Theatre, Artifice, and the Flawed Emulation of Cinema

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Sufficiently Human's latest guest post comes to us from Chicago-based writer, artist, video producer, and Editor-in-Chief of clickbliss.net , Omar Elaasar. You can find him him on Twitter, Medium a...

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Guest Post: Theatre, Artifice, and the Flawed Emulation of Cinema

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Sufficiently Human's latest guest post comes to us from Chicago-based writer, artist, video producer, and Editor-in-Chief of clickbliss.net , Omar Elaasar. You can find him him on Twitter, Medium a...

Guest Post: Theatre, Artifice, and the Flawed Emulation of Cinema

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The great Omar Elaasar talks about theater, especially set and stage design, in the context of videogames. He asks how games can borrow from theater to achieve more expressive potential than simply copying piecemeal from film.

September 26, 2015 23:29:21

It's Just a Ride

September 30, 2015 05:18:45

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TW: This piece discusses death, trauma, claustrophobia, panic and anxiety.] There's this episode of The Twilight Zone called "The Hitch-hiker" from 1960 in which a woman named Nan Adams is driving ...

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