Waypoint, The Red String Club, and Videogame Criticism

Recently, an opinion piece was published on Vice’s Waypoint gaming site talking about the recently released The Red Strings Club by Deconstructeam. The response was, in general, quite critical and with pretty good reason. Coupled with the podcast episode, the message from Waypoint about this game was to not purchase it because it was transphobic, […]

No Pineapple Left Behind: My Own Experience in Cultivating Pineapples

“I think you should look into another profession. Either way, I hope you stay in touch. I like to keep in touch with all my trainees even if I don’t think they are suitable for the job” That was the closing statement by my overseer on my last day of student teaching. My teacher-tutor, who […]

A Mind Forever Voyaging: The Original Political Game

In 1985, Infocom released a groundbreaking game written by Steve Meretzky that no one has tried to re-invent or iterate on since. Not only did it put its political message front and center, it also created an open world so ambitious that it might be impossible to create outside of a text parser. That game […]

Thoughts and Prayers on Gun Control

Thoughts and Prayers is the latest game from the GOP Arcade. In the game, you have to click Prayers and Thoughts to try to help the United States deal with mass shootings. These shootings are represented by points on the map that pop up with the number of civilians killed and where the shootings took […]