#heather alexandra

[adventureathand]

Breath of the Wild Mod: You Play As Zelda

Heather Alexandra over on Kotaku has a great article (here) that covers a bit of the development of a mod that places Zelda in the role of saving Hyrule. There are now more than 20 people working on the Zelda Conversion Project, attempting to bring this mod to reality. Check out the article with some great videos, links to the modder’s youtube channel and some great concept art too. 

[mike-clarke]

Holy shit.

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Giant Bomb at Nite - Live From E3 2017: Nite 2

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[sam-keeper]

Aaah man lots of thoughts about Heather Alexandra's latest video. It's so good to have that concept articulated? Like this kind of dynamism in game narrative is something I really strove to explore with A Host of Gentle Terrors, and it's real hard.

But I think there's also parallels to a lot of hypermedia. Homestuck and The Adventure Zone are really major examples of this I think? Probably Awful Hospital as well? Though I know less about the creation process there. Randomness plays a huge role in these narratives. They're in many ways BUILT on random generation. This implies a continuum between "readerly" experiences of dynamism and "writerly" experiences. Breath of the Wild <--> Max Ernst, maybe. With an Ernst or a cutup-produced Bowie song emergence and dynamism are interpreted and cemented by the artist but it's possible to curate experiences that have that cementing take place between reader/writer or strongly on the reader side and I think what makes this so interesting is the way it invites contemplation, creativity, and an exploration of new possibilities.

[lmaverick123]

Spider-Man Isn't Political Enough! (A response to Kotaku)

Spider-Man Isn’t Political Enough! (A response to Kotaku)

Anyone remember when Far Cry 5came out and all the SJWs were bitching about how it wasn’t political enough and didn’t make a caricature of conservative America enough for them?  Well, it seems that the new Spider-Man isn’t exempt from this intellectually-vapid “journalism” either.  Because now we have Kotaku writing another insipid piece where a game that was targeted at young people to put them…

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Another good take on Spider-Man’s relationship with the cops

Heather Alexandra, writing for Kotaku:

Police are an unimpeachable group in Spider-Man. They show no real flaws and make no mistakes. They don’t feel like an integrated part of the the community; they pepper cutscenes and sometimes walk the streets but mostly show up as an allied faction in procedurally generated crime events. Even if Spider-Man’s New York is largely a fiction, it points towards a real place. New York is many things, but it is also the city of Eric Garner, stop-and-frisk, and Palantir.

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[nuclearmonster]

Heather Alexandra on What It Means To Buy A Video Game

Heather Alexandra on What It Means To Buy A Video Game

Highly recommended reading from Heather Alexandra :

…the intersection of work and labor at play when we buy games also means that there’s a lot more going on. Being a responsible game player requires understanding the dynamics at play.

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Let Queer Characters Be Happy

Heather Alexandra, writing for Kotaku:

When The Last Of Us Part II’s new trailer debuted at this year’s E3, protagonist Ellie enjoyed a slow dance and kiss with another woman. My queer friends and I confessed to one another that we were assuming the worst. That happy girl will probably die, because while games allow us to be many things—space marines, mages, and tenacious heroes—they rarely allow queer people to be happy.

I hope Naughty Dog developers know what they’re doing with this trope.

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