Secondtruth Blog Archives

This week on Gamasutra, Emily Short wrote a fantastic short article about the Heroine’s Journey. I admire Emily and I think her analysis is bang-on, but it seems like there was some controversy in the comments about whether or not such a thing even exists. This is a topic near and dear to me. As…

Another blog at Tap, linked here! http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/02/scenes-from-the-game-jam/ I am particularly proud of my “Game Jam” header photo. I searched online for cute pictures of jams to use as the header, but then decided I felt really bad stealing the pretty home-made jam photos from dedicated cooking blogs. Good food photos are so hard to take.…

Life is shortso love the one you got’cause you might get run overor you might get Shot By me, mostly, playing Saints Row: The Third, where you will find my impressions on Tap-Repeatedly. http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/01/21/saints-row-the-third-no-longer-by-proxy/ I’d like to write a longer article at some point dealing just in particular with my feelings on how it handles…

Critical Distance is running a “blogs of the round table” challenge for people who pontificate about games, and I thought I’d jump in, because it seems like good times. The topic this month is “Being Other.” The idea is to discuss moments that a game made you feel like someone you are not. You can…

Since I enjoyed “don’t take it personally babe” last year, I thought I’d give another visual novel a try: Four Leaf Studio’s Katawa Shoujo. Here is my mini-review! http://tap-repeatedly.com/2012/01/06/impressions-katawa-shoujo/

Yesterday a thing happened on Twitter. Vox Media is a new game news web site in development. They started their media blitz by talking about how they were all “handsome” and were then forced to answer the question “are there any women on your staff?” So, well, no: this is a thing started by dudes…

This will probably be the last time I write about Skyrim here. Probably because I should really move on to something else, considering my play time, even though I’m not even actually “done” with either the main quest or the war quests of the game. My To Do List is finally shrinking to something manageable (in…

Trying out a new template. I also installed a mobile template if you are reading my blog on the go. If you are having any problems with it let me know. I made Critical Distance this week with my article on Tap! I know I’m just drawing a big circle by pointing this out. But all the…

Today, I wrote a little about failure. You can read it on Tap-Repeatedly. http://tap-repeatedly.com/2011/12/08/the-incredible-threat-of-failure/ When I was finishing up my graduate degree, my interest in video game narrative started to take over my life, and is what I wrote about in my thesis. In particular, I was interested on how what is done by a…