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  • Teaching
    • Comparative Media Poetics: Horror
    • Games, Rules, Stories, Genres
    • History of International Cinema, Part III: 1960-Present
    • Digital Storytelling
    • A History of Indie Games, 2000–2025
    • Film and the Moving Image
    • Closure and Infinity in Digital Media
  • Video
  • The Task of Blogging and the Task of AI

    Ian Bryce Jones

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    September 26, 2026
    Announcements, By Ian
    The Task of Blogging and the Task of AI

    On the internet, education, intellectual generosity, and link rot

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  • A Structural Critique of IMMORTALITY

    Ian Bryce Jones

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    October 12, 2025
    By Ian, Video Essays
    A Structural Critique of IMMORTALITY

    Skipping stones over a lake of answers, in search of a question.

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  • OMORI’s Fantastical Pacing Problem

    Ian Bryce Jones

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    August 30, 2025
    By Ian, Video Essays
    OMORI’s Fantastical Pacing Problem

    Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?

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  • Wanderstop and Perverse Design

    Ian Bryce Jones

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    July 26, 2025
    By Ian, Video Essays
    Wanderstop and Perverse Design

    Better to burnout than to fade away.

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  • Mouthwashing, Flashbacks, and Agency

    Ian Bryce Jones

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    April 26, 2025
    By Ian, Video Essays
    Mouthwashing, Flashbacks, and Agency

    The past is never dead. In fact, it’s playable.

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  • Recommending the ENIGMA TRILOGY

    Ian Bryce Jones

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    October 31, 2024
    By Ian, Video Essays
    Recommending the ENIGMA TRILOGY

    I made you some content.

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  • SHAPE UP!: The Beat Bottleneck

    Ian Bryce Jones

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    July 20, 2024
    By Ian, Video Essays
    SHAPE UP!: The Beat Bottleneck

    The beats will continue until morale improves.

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  • SHAPE UP!: Repetition and Difference

    Ian Bryce Jones

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    June 10, 2024
    By Ian, Video Essays
    SHAPE UP!: Repetition and Difference

    Second verse, not the same as the first.

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  • Orwell: A Game About Normalizing Oppression

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    May 20, 2024
    From Students, Narratives of Investigation, Games of Investigation
    Orwell: A Game About Normalizing Oppression

    A student post by Will T

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  • Environmental Storytelling in Searching

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    May 20, 2024
    From Students, Narratives of Investigation, Games of Investigation
    Environmental Storytelling in Searching

    A student post by Steele C

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  • Return of the Obra Dinn: An Introspective

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    May 17, 2024
    From Students, Narratives of Investigation, Games of Investigation
    Return of the Obra Dinn: An Introspective

    A student post by Bruno P

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  • An Analysis of Secret Hitler and the Strategies Within

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    May 17, 2024
    From Students, Narratives of Investigation, Games of Investigation
    An Analysis of Secret Hitler and the Strategies Within

    A student post by Carrie M

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  • Pentiment, or How to Play at Solving the Unsolvable

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    May 7, 2024
    From Students, Narratives of Investigation, Games of Investigation
    Pentiment, or How to Play at Solving the Unsolvable

    A student post by Nicole S

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  • Marriage Between Puzzle and Story in Return of the Obra Dinn

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    May 6, 2024
    From Students, Narratives of Investigation, Games of Investigation
    Marriage Between Puzzle and Story in Return of the Obra Dinn

    A student post by Sean G

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  • Red Herrings in And Then There Were None

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    April 26, 2024
    From Students, Narratives of Investigation, Games of Investigation
    Red Herrings in And Then There Were None

    A student post by Elle H

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  • The Colonel’s Bequest: A Great Watch, but Awful to Play

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    April 26, 2024
    From Students, Narratives of Investigation, Games of Investigation

    A student post by Echo Z

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    • Comparative Media Poetics: Horror
    • Digital Storytelling
    • Film and the Moving Image
    • Games, Rules, Stories, Genres
    • Intro to Film
    • Narratives of Investigation, Games of Investigation
    • The Loop as Form

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