Tales from the Trenches – Troubled Times

An image of four suits from the game Anthem, hovering in front of a majestic landscape.

On occasion you will end up on projects that are nothing but trouble. What I mean by that is. That you’ll get to solve problem after problem after problem, and none of them will be easy to deal with. Some of them could have been avoided, but since it’s a troubled project, you won’t be... Continue Reading →

2022-11-10 0

Tales from the Trenches – Digging It

I'm trying to get through Jesse Schell's book "The Art of Game Design". One of the points he's making is that if you have a good basis for your game, a solid fundamental mechanic, you will also have a good game. This is (shockingly!) true. When I worked on Habbo Islands, a game created by... Continue Reading →

2022-11-08 0

Triple-A Games Are Not Art

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So you might think that this statement is very definitive and absolute and you would be kind of right. You might also wonder if I’m actually serious, because damn, look at all those lovely games out there, with their graphics and their narrative and... yes. Maybe I’m wrong about this, but I know I’m right... Continue Reading →

2022-10-13 0

The Ubiquitous “He”

I’m reading books about game design and game development at the moment. The reason I’m reading is because I actually want to read all those books I bought way back in order to see if they’re any good, really. One discovery that shouldn’t suprise me or bother me is the constant gendering of players as... Continue Reading →

2022-10-11 0

Flimsy Excuses

A large muscular man with red markings stand next to a birch with an axe in his hands, set to start hacking at the birch

Not too long ago a book about adventures was written here in Sweden, and there’s a quote in that book that I believe encapsulates how women and other marginalized groups are often viewed when it comes to games. It states that really, these adventures only make sense with male protagonists and really it’s hard to... Continue Reading →

2022-10-01 0

I See You

This post is more about putting thoughts on paper than a finished hypothesis. It has to do with the (potential) conflict between identification with the avatar and the limited selection of said avatars, primarily because most of them are written and designed by white, heterosexual cis-men. Many games that deal with identification, call it stepping... Continue Reading →

2022-09-29 0

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