The Moving Pixels Podcast Goes to ‘Detention’
Nick and Eric got sent to detention and missed Halloween, but they escaped their classroom just in time to talk about the Taiwanese horror game Detention.
Games
The Moving Pixels Podcast Gets Caught Up in ‘A Case of Distrust’
In this edition, we dig into the detective point-and-click text adventure A Case of Distrust, and investigate what makes it good, but not great.
The Moving Pixels Podcast Becomes Sentient, Discusses ‘The Fall Part 2: Unbound’
This week we discuss self-consciousness, self-identification, and awful puzzle design in The Fall: Part 2 - Unbound.
The End of Endings; or, Why Won’t Anyone Stay Dead?
What does it mean, ontologically and narratively, when the seeming finality of death disappears from our stories? What does it mean when our stories and our characters, unlike our lives, refuse to come to an end?
The Moving Pixels Podcast Goes on ‘The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit’
This week we discuss The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, and how its status as a prequel/promo for Life Is Strange 2 makes it less awesome.
The Moving Pixels Podcast Discusses the ‘Circular’ Series
This month Nick and Eric discuss the economics of robot sentience in Subsurface Circular and the tricky trust issues of alien first-contact in Quarantine Circular.
Ready Player None: Paolo Ruffino’s ‘Future Gaming’
Will gamers complete this textual quest?
The Moving Pixels Podcast Goes to Hell…blade
We brave the depths of Helheim to talk about the art, craft, and representation of psychosis in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Tribeca 2018: ‘Netizens’ and ‘Every Act of Life’
These important documentaries about online abuse and the works of Terrence McNally attempt to illuminate empathy and social awareness at a time when it is being woefully ignored.