Hi, I am Mayshu. I use she her pronouns. My favorite game is The Longing. The reason why I love it is its game time synchronized with the real-world time, blurring the boundaries between reality and the virtuality, giving me a sense of the avatar has in the game—feeling empathy, which I think is one of the main qualities and power that games own.
Recently, I am writing essays about and playing Chinese independent horror games with embedded social critique—representing games’ seriousness via proceduralism, narrative, and audio-visual design.
