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I’ve already spoken quite a bit about this aspect of games and the underlying implications of being unclean and inviting the monster into yourself in the post about Banshees and Broodmothers earlier. I want to return to Western ideas of monsters, though, and Western ideas of the grotesque, because there is a strong connection between... Continue Reading →
People who say accessibility will ruin the difficulty of a game are probably not entirely aware of what accessibility is. (Here's a handy primer.) Unless, of course, all of them are super smart and realise that an inaccessible game can be super difficult for a person who is physically or mentally impaired in some way.... Continue Reading →
A table-top role-playing game is probably one of the least usable gaming artifacts that I know of, with the possible exception of that thing PlayStation did with movement, or maybe the Kinect for non-English speakers who were women with an accent. I’m being a bit snarky. I feel I have deserved it. To give you... Continue Reading →
With the increase in Artificial Intelligence creating art - or deriving art from already created art - I’ve been thinking about craftsmanship. How - because of my age - I have learned a lot about art, design and photography the non-digital way. Taking a photo, for instance, was limited to a framework. Film grain, ISO,... Continue Reading →
The reason I write a lot about what games do wrong is because I feel that gaming culture, game development and games in general can be so much better, but in order for us to be better, we have to make sure that we think about what we put in games, how we discuss games... Continue Reading →
Some background before I dive into this specific opinion. I have reviewed games and more specifically TTRPGs since 2005 in the Swedish gaming magazine Fenix. To date I have written around 600 reviews, and more than half of those are of role-playing games. I’m telling you this so that you won’t think that this opinion... Continue Reading →
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