As was promised in the first post, we’ll be kicking off our choice-laden journey with a great leap by venturing into space with the Mass Effect trilogy developed by BioWare. The games are set towards the end of the twenty-second century, across a multitude of planets including Earth, and follow the story of Commander Shepard,…
As tastes and trends change, video games continue to evolve, just like other forms of media. Recent years have seen the emergence of a new kind of gameplay: interactive narratives that emphasize practical and moral player choices. While decision making has always been a core feature of tabletop – and to some extent digital –…
“Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato’s cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth.” This is how Susan Sontag opens the first essay in her collection On Photography (1977), titled “In Plato’s Cave.” Like the quote and the title suggest, she goes on to examine ways in which photography connects and disconnects…
What makes the Discworld series so popular? This was what I set out to answer in my bachelor’s thesis which I wrote last year about Sir Terry Pratchett’s series of novels. In the thesis I argued that one of the key components behind the popularity of the books among critics and readers alike is their…