Overwatch is at the height of its popularity, becoming Blizzard’s fastest-growing franchise ever with more than 35 million players. The developer has also led the charge in promoting the game’s burgeoning eSports scene with the Overwatch League, which boasted 10 million viewers during its first week of matches. It’s incredible to think how a…
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Video games are only getting bigger and deeper. Complex, branching narratives, layered systems and mechanics, sprawling, detailed worlds begging to be explored—these are becoming the rule rather than the exception to meet consumers’ ever-increasing standards. Even still, I’ve begun longing for simpler, more relaxing experiences as time goes by. Escapism…
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This piece really tested the limits of my intellect (ha ha). I wrote about how a game’s universe translates differently across media via transmedia (like ads, comics, commercials, etc.) for a class called Visual Rhetoric, which you can read below. Divisions in Tom Clancy’s: The Division: The Curiosities of Visual…
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Can you teach creative writing to students with videogames? Sure, and that’s what this paper I wrote for my Teaching of Writing class was about. Not as much interviews as I would’ve liked, but I did what I could. Link’s below. The Digital Voice Within: Teaching Writing With Videogames
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This is a paper/presentation hybrid I made for a class called Trends in Contemporary Literature. I focused on the issue of new genres challenging old norms in videogames with the “walking simulator” genre, which you can read about below. The Walking Simulator: How a Contemporary Videogame Genre Challenges Them All…
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This is a paper I wrote about how analog and digital technologies are depicted and contrasted in videogames to amplify horror. Link’s below. Recording a Nightmare: Outlast And The Remediation Of A Camcorde
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This is the thesis I wrote for my Writing Studies degree at Gardner-Webb University. It’s a doozy, so here’s a … kinda-less-complicated summary of what it’s about. Little attention has been given to how digital technologies have impacted the comic medium. Despite the astronomical impact this shift has had on…
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I wrote a whole bunch of think pieces during my time at GWU, which involved talking about entertainment media as much as possible. I also made some videos for some assignments. You can read or watch all this stuff through the link below. Subdued Flames- Blog Page
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I still laugh watching Adam Montoya’s (Seananners) videos where he goofed around with friends in multiplayer mods of Half-Life 2 and user-created modes for Garry’s Mod, such as Prop Hunt and Trouble in Terrorist Town. However, I’ve fallen off of the Let’s Play bandwagon for some time. I have little time to play videogames as…
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You know those spiffy airplanes that have screens on the back of the chairs in front of you? It’s such a great way to kill time on lengthy flights and catch up on films you might’ve missed. I was on a flight that had one of those the year I…
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