The last thing I thought I would do in a college English class is help a classmate defuse a bomb, but that fantasy became reality on February 14th in ENGL378P. Using a Meta Quest 2 headset, two classmates and I helped a peer diffuse a bomb in virtual reality by playing the game Keep Talking…
I have a few issues with Lost on the Amazon, the choose your own adventure book I read and took far too seriously—the beginning of the book features reviews left by ten and eleven year olds, so I doubt this is a piece of literature that deserves the criticism I am going to give it. …
Gang Beasts is a very fun game. During the weekends my roommates and I often play couch co-op games or party games before heading out to parties or to see friends. We play classic games like Wii Sports and Just Dance as well as newer games like JackBox TV. These games are great but last…
A few months ago, I started to play Fallout: New Vegas, my boyfriend’s favorite video game. He was ecstatic that I was interested in playing and wanted to see how I navigated his beloved post-apocalyptic world. He wanted to see how I would utilize the sandbox elements of the game to create my own story…
I’m a big fan of narrative driven games or story driven games that do well to turn storytelling into a game mechanic so “Blackbar” by Mrgan struck a chord with me. My family and I are also avid consumers of puzzles and crosswords (and games like wordle: wordle) so I was interested in the mobile…
I am actually a big fan of word/puzzle games. While I am not a huge mobile gamer, when I do play them, it is often these sorts of games. I find they are a fun way to pass time, and the difficulty generally makes these games more interesting than fun repetitive games like Flappy Bird.…
Last night, I played through Blackbar on my iPhone. It is a text-based puzzle game written and design by Neven Mrgan and engineered by James Moore. Conceptually, the idea of the game is good. The player is given a letter with some words of the letter censored by a black bar. In order to move…
The most interesting conversation (to me, at least) that we’ve had thus far as a class was in reference to agency and memory in Run Lola Run. In the film, Lola attempts to gather 100,000 Deutschmarks in twenty minutes to save the life of her boyfriend Manni. In a kismet of cosmic luck and brilliant…
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