#ken levine

[nintendocafe]

"Look at the Nintendo Switch 2 and the new machines coming out. These aren't huge technological leaps… and that wasn't the goal. We're finally starting to admit that we've reached a saturation point with graphics. BioShock still looks stunning today precisely because it relied on a strong artistic style rather than realism at all costs." said Ken Levine, creator of BioShock

[sinclair-solutions]

Boyfriend and I came across the interview Ken Levine had where he canonized Brigid Tenenbaum as being Autistic and it's bad.

He goes on a whole "I am such a great writer" slog about intersectionality within video games and how Tenenbaum is more than her three traits (woman, Jewish, autistic) because she actually does *bad* and *unexpected* things despite being a disenfranchised person. Huh?

Anyways do you want to know what he says after praising his diverse character writing of Tenenbaum?:

Motherfucker really said "of all the characters in *both* Bioshock games" and said ELIZABETH is as or more oppressed than TENENBAUM (you put a white woman against another even more white woman what is happening)

of course the guy that's only been behind the writing of one single black character who dies as a result of being a "too violent revolutionary" and wanting to take the life of her oppressor's son would say that

[idkplzhalp]

I think more people need to draw Tenenbaum with the Luteces bc of the implications she's them in Rapture's universe. Or i think that's what it means?? I genuinely cannot tell if Levine is saying the variable is that sometimes the Luteces are autistic, that Tenenbaum is the Luteces, or that the general guide to the player is sometimes autistic?? Someone explain it to me, I've found myself to not be smart enough to comprehend most bioshock lore💀

[alpaca-clouds]

Somehow everyone starting to talk about Bioshock again was not on my 2026 bingo card.

Fun fact: that game was what actually got me into gaming. Before I had played Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Pokémon, but I was not really invested in games as an artform. Bioshock changed that. I was obsessed with that series for a while.

Even though I have very complicated feelings about them today.

Still, man. What would I have given to see the Bioshock movie that Gore Verbinski wanted to make.

[doomed-jester]

[banging on Ken Levine's window] WHERE ARE THE BIG MOMMIES YOU COWARD

[cardboard-aliens]

ive been given a glitter text website and it awoke an important need to make ugly DA stamps HSDFUISDF

[rapturesbest]

I fucking hate him so much

[lyinginahammock]

BioShock

Imagine being so fucking wrong about everything that 25 years after you die a videogame is published that is a detailed, thorough exploration of how fucking wrong you were about everything. This videogame makes it so that an entire generation views your work as what the videogame was about and they don't take you seriously, killing any serious cultural impact you may have had. This game is also considered to be one of the greatest videogames of all time, and its iconography, mechanics, and design are ingrained in pop culture in a way your works never were, and the game becomes an indelible part of a medium.

POV you're Ayn Rand and you got owned by Ken Levine's BioShock.