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Continue reading →: A Hand With Many Fingers: A Detective’s JourneyCorkboard Simulator Extraordinaire
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Continue reading →: Katawa Shoujo, Romantic Comedy/Tragedy, and the “Top of the Knowledge Hierarchy”by Oren OUniversity of Chicago MADD 25630: Games, Rules, Stories, GenresWinter 2021 Katawa Shoujo is defined by its official website as a “bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan.”[1]There are a couple of translations of the title circulating around the web, but the one…
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Continue reading →: Her Story: Do We Really Know What it Is?by Brooke WUniversity of Chicago MADD 25630: Games, Rules, Stories, GenresWinter 2021 Her Story is a 2015 FMV detective mystery game by Sam Barlow. Throughout the game, the player acts as an unidentified investigator of sorts, gleaning through a police database of video clips from seven interrogations of a woman, Hannah Smith, to solve the…
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Continue reading →: A closer look at the paradox of Tragedy in Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrificeby Abdo MUniversity of Chicago MADD 25630: Games, Rules, Stories, GenresWinter 2021 CONTENT WARNING This game contains representations of psychosis. People with experience of psychosis as well as professionals in psychiatry have assisted in these depictions. Hello, who are you? …It doesn’t matter. Welcome. You are safe with me. I’ll be right here, nice and…
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Continue reading →: Elsinore: The Tragedy That Never Endsby Ella NUniversity of Chicago MADD 25630: Games, Rules, Stories, GenresWinter 2021 At its most simplistic description, Elsinore is a click-and-point adventure game where the player embodies Hamlet’s Ophelia. As the game unfolds, your abilities as a player expand. At the start, you learn that you are living through Shakespeare’s tragedy but you are able…
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Continue reading →: “You Can’t Please Everyone:” Identity Formation and the Procedural Rhetorics of Signs of the Sojournerby Abby HUniversity of Chicago MADD 25630: Games, Rules, Stories, GenresWinter 2021 Signs of the Sojourner uses its deck-building structure as a jumping off point for creating a procedural rhetoric that encourages empathetic, compassionate communication. Players can only succeed in conversations–and therefore receive the items they need to complete goals and the information to unlock…
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Continue reading →: Rule of Rose and the Tidiness of UnrealityIan here— Whoops! I made sure to give myself enough time to finish this video by Halloween … but then I neglected to post the announcement here! Happy belated Halloween, everyone. I really relished the opportunity to talk about Rule of Rose, one of my favorite odd little games that I’ve never written about in…
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Continue reading →: Return of the Obra Dinn Commentary and CritiqueThe slow march of my video series on detective games continues with this, its fifth entry. For awhile I was afraid there was no reason to do this one, as I wouldn’t be able to top my students’ posts and videos on this game after I taught it last spring. In the end, I went…
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Continue reading →: “We Had a List of Rules”: An Analysis of HER STORYA fourth entry in my video series on detective games. It’s not real surprise that this game would end up in this series: I’ve taught it twice now (including in one class this term), I’ve written about teaching it, I named it one of the games of the decade, and right before the term launched…
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Continue reading →: What is Slapstick? From Comedia dell’arte to Chuchelgroup project submission, created by group leader Annie TUniversity of Chicago MADD 25630: Games, Rules, Stories, GenresSpring 2020 Introduction Chuchel is an absurd, zany, surreal point and click game where you guide a character named Chuchel. You go through a series of puzzles and minigames with the goal of getting the object of Chuchel’s desire,…
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Continue reading →: Characterizing the Costumes in Cluelessby Mimi TUniversity of Chicago CMST 10100: Intro to FilmSpring 2020 Clueless by Amy Heckerling includes some of the most memorable costume design from the 1990s. Anyone who has seen the movie, even if they cannot remember a specific outfit, remembers the fashion as distinctly bold and of the moment. The movie is about a…
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Continue reading →: The Genius of Slapstick in Octodad: Dadliest Catchgroup project submission, created by group leader Miles MUniversity of Chicago MADD 25630: Games, Rules, Stories, GenresSpring 2020 Make a splash in the nautical nonsense of Octodad: Dadliest Catch!
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Continue reading →: Dream Daddy: A Dream Come Truegroup project submission, created by group leader Dianne KUniversity of Chicago MADD 25630: Games, Rules, Stories, GenresSpring 2020 Was Dream Daddy all your dreams come true and more? ‘Cause it definitely was for me.
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Continue reading →: Rules and Return of the Obra Dinngroup project submission, created by group leader Alan TUniversity of Chicago MADD 25630: Games, Rules, Stories, GenresSpring 2020
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Continue reading →: The Revolutionary Power of Clues in Return of the Obra Dinngroup project submission, created by group co-leader Kellie LUniversity of Chicago MADD 25630: Games, Rules, Stories, GenresSpring 2020 Return of the Obra Dinn is a distillation of the mystery genre that manages to make a player a true detective while adding its own intimate flair. Unlike many detective games that give the player god-like powers…
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Continue reading →: Get a Clue: Clues and Obra Dinngroup project submission, created by group co-leader Albert AUniversity of Chicago MADD 25630: Games, Rules, Stories, GenresSpring 2020 “The contradiction? Elementary.” I say, before submitting every possible piece of evidence from the court record in a pathetic attempt to convince Ace Attorney I’ve been paying attention. The difference between the puzzle of a traditional detective…
