Read Write Play: Mystic Messenger May 30, 2023 After playing Mystic Messenger and reading the paper titled “Investing Time for Your In-Game Boyfriends and BFFs: Time as Commodity and the Simulation of…
Read Write Play: Stardew Valley May 29, 2023 After playing Stardew Valley and reading “Playing in the global ‘village’: a comparative analysis of capitalist ideologies in Stardew Valley and Story of Seasons”…
Read Write Play: Undertale May 29, 2023 After reading “The Rhetoric of Video Games” by Ian Bogost, I began to think about the rhetoric of Undertale. One key theme that is…
Read Write Play: Catan May 29, 2023 After reading the essay on Catan, it was really interesting to think about the values that games instill in players and the extent to…
Read Write Play: What Remains of Edith Finch May 23, 2023 When I began playing “What Remains of Edith Finch,” I knew that it was a walking sim and expected that narrative and discovery would…
Read Write Play: Hollow Knight May 12, 2023 My initial reaction while playing Hollow Knight was that the fighting art and sounds were extremely intense. Many times when I swiped my sword,…
80 Days April 21, 2023 While playing 80 Days, there were multiple aspects of the game that I really enjoyed. Firstly, I really liked the narrative and the power…
Rachel Naidich Final Class Reflection June 8, 2022 I think that by taking this class and CS 377G, I now have a new appreciation for different types of games that I either…
Rachel Naidich Critical Play: Is this game balanced? June 6, 2022 The game that I think is one of the most well balanced games is chess, which is why I think it has stood the…
Critical Play: Puzzles June 6, 2022 For my puzzle game, I ended up playing Moss on the Oculus Quest. Moss is a virtual reality adventure game developed by Polyarc for…
P2: Monster Mayhem May 31, 2022 CS247G Project 2 Monster Movie Mayhem By Kayla Kelly, Rachel Naidich, Melissa Ran Artists’ Statement Inspired by the likes of Tamagotchi and Fireboy…
Rachel Naidich Critical Play: Mysteries May 30, 2022 I played Firewatch, which is a game made by Campo Santo for Windows, OS X, Linux, Play Station 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch….
Critical Play: Walking Simulators May 9, 2022 I ended up playing Life is Strange, a game that follows the story of Max Caulfield, a high school student at Blackwell Academy. Max…
