Summary:
Hi, my name is Denis. I originally started this blog over at Blogger in July 2008. I tend to write a lot about videogames, and have made various rounds of the web. Was formerly a staff writer for both GayGamer and The Border House. This blog serves to explicate my thoughts on any number of issues, not solely focused on videogames anymore (though they still make up the majority).Search:
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Wii Play the Game
According to sales figures and word of mouth, one could estimate that the Nintendo Wii is popular. It can also still be rather difficult to locate in some regions. Chicago is one of these areas. Color me surprised when I … Continue reading
Gender Policies
Growing up a dual citizen who constantly moved, thereby allowing his family to make up all manner of personal holidays and traditions, who just so happened to realize he was queer pretty early on in his teens–all while being raised … Continue reading
Tagged gender in games, sexuality
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Imagine a game with no rules
If you look at that image to the left, I would hope you can follow my train of thought in imagining that puzzle piece as a human being, requisite with four limbs and a head. Even though I spent a … Continue reading
Tagged Emergent gameplay, narrative
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Reading Quest
Here in Chicago there is a lovely independent bookstore by the name of Quimby’s in my old neighborhood, Wicker Park. While I was living there and searching for a gift for my mother I came across the cover for Leopold … Continue reading
Tagged literature, marketing and games
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I’ve Still Got My Health: Triumphant Returns (Part 3)
Apologies for the delay in closing this series (though I’m not quite sure how many are actually reading this yet); I suffered some real life attempts at decreasing my health through adversarial forces. Unfortunately, potion quaffing, cure casting, and faerie … Continue reading
Tagged Cap'n Perkins, reward
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I’ve Still Got My Health: The pain! The pain! (Part 2)
Cap’n Perkins called me after playing Oblivion one evening having thought through three general manners of dealing with a health system that games have. They are as follows: Boss Mode This model can most often be seen in boss fights, … Continue reading
Tagged Cap'n Perkins, difficulty
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I’ve Still Got My Health: I <3 You (Part 1)
In games with some sort of conflict through arms we have established one basic norm: health. This seems a very fundamental fact of games with any manner of fighting against which it is hard to argue or find an alternate … Continue reading
Tagged Cap'n Perkins, difficulty
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Open ended
In 1994 one of my father’s friends came over to our house and brought with him a game, Elder Scrolls: Arena. We loaded it up and my entire family (yes, all of us: mother, father, brother, and I) watched in … Continue reading
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