Welcome to the Sunday Supplement, your weekly wrap of interesting games writing beyond the usual news, previews and reviews. Today we look at sexism, racism and… architecture!
Groping The Elephant: Playing the Sex card
CrashT asks whether it’s okay to include overtly sexist mechanics and characters in a game.
BLDG BLOG: Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds
Jim Rossignol tackles the way designers use architecture to convey just how evil our in-game enemies really are.
Narrative Flood: To Be Continued…
Richard Cobbett criticises games that don’t provide satisfying narrative closure.
Racialicious: Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game: the Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft
Racism is alive and well in attitudes towards gold farmers in the WOW community.
Eurogamer: Retrospective: Pathologic
Lewis Denby dissects a quite extraordinary Russian developed adventure.
James
May 17, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Wow, Pathologic sounds great.
Report PermalinkBen Abraham
May 17, 2009 at 3:55 PM
If you’re looking for more great writing about Pathologic, Quintin Smith writing for Rock, Paper, Shotgun wrote an impressively thorough and passionate three-part series on the game back in April of last year. Here’s a link:
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