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Just a place for me to collect things that make me happy. A lot of things make me happy :) I have a job that involves long periods of not doing very much. I spend this time posting. Expect a lot of posts. But only during office hours. <3 xxx www.technowitch.tumblr.com/archive hit counter

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shattered-earth

Finished! A tribute to the beauty of Final Fantasy logos and my love of the Legend of Zelda franchise.

The precise text placement/kerning may be adjusted a tiny bit but other than that, here they are! It was a real itch i just had to do and i learned a lot about inking and using solids by imitating the original logo work.

Pre-orders for prints to be shipped mid Feb can be found here and discounted set price here.

nissacam

Finding Her Voice: Red's Agency in Transistor

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: there’s this girl, see—a pretty little thing—and she’s supposed to be the hero of the story. But everything she does is by the men around her. She lacks agency in her own story. She’s not acting independently. She isn’t free to make her own choices.

Like, say, a woman without a voice, and the sword who’s there to fill the silence?

That’s the glaring red flag that comes with Transistor: it sure looks like a game where you’re not supposed to project yourself into the character of Red as much as want to protect her. If Red doesn’t have a voice, then it’s really the sword’s story, isn’t it?

It’s so glaring that it seems like Supergiant Games wants you to think that going in, because the first thing they do is turn that impression on its head. Red doesn’t just have agency within the world of Transistor—the game itself is an exploration of what that means.

We’re going to dive deep into spoilers (right through to the game’s end), so stop here if that’s a problem.

clairehosking

There’s a pervasive idea that procedural storytelling and arts are somehow less “authored” than linear narrative, which is bullshit. I love Transistor because it skewers this idea mechanically and thematically, and while many games ask us to question what we consume (a la Spec Ops: The Line),...