For this week’s art game designed around critical play I chose to play The Stanley Parable. The Stanley Parable is a first person fourth wall breaking puzzle adventure game. You play as Stanley, a faceless desk worker in an office space plagued by anomalies and slightly puppeted by an omnipresent…

The game I played this week is called “In Loving Memory”. It is a game about a girl named Naomi coping with the loss of her best friend, Filia. While on the phone with Filia, who is out running an errand for Naomi, Filia is struck and killed by a…

The first game that comes to my mind for a game that expresses political and social values is Grand Theft Auto. It’s a game that basically allows the player to experience all the bad parts of humanity that most people wouldn’t normally experience in real life. You can freely commit…

Apart from glitches in video games, like I talked about last week, glitches can also occur outside the game, especially while developing them. These types of glitches often appear in the form of files being corrupted. They can be quite frustrating for the user when they occur, as they often…

There are multiple different types of glitches in video games. The easiest way to summarize all of them, is when something goes wrong; if something that isn’t supposed to happen happens, or if something that is supposed to happen doesn’t happen. For example if you were playing a driving game…

The art piece I chose to write about this week is Dear Eidolon by Carson Lynn. For this piece, Lynn uses multiple games including VR-Chat, Dark Souls III, Halo 3, Bloodborne, Destiny 2, Dark Souls II, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, No Man’s Sky, and Counter-Strike: Source. The game that…

The modified game I chose to write about this week is Minecraft modified by Feed the Beast, specifically the mod pack names SkyFactory 3. Minecraft is one of the most modded games around and has been for years, it’s development style has allowed for the game to be modified in…

The game I chose to play this week is Counter Strike: Global Offensive by Valve. I have played this game and its predecessors for years, I have a combined 20,000+ hours in them so I definitely have a decent knowledge on the game mechanics, physics, and engine. Valve developed the…

The game I chose to write about is Overwatch released in 2016 by Activision Blizzard. It is a team-based first person shooter game, with moba class type artifacts. The game is played in a 6 versus 6 setting, typically with one team being the attackers and the other being the…