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'Zero Time Dilemma' Argues for the Necessity of Trauma
The structure of Zero Time Dilemma suggests that learning how to solve problems can only occur after having lived through suffering.
16 Nov 2016
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Complex Moral Choices Are Best Saved for the End
The kinds of choices that force us to define what we value and how a game is about what we value are best implemented at the end of that game.
11 Jul 2014
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Searching for Dramatic Stakes in 'The Wolf Among Us'
Episode four of The Wolf Among Us feels mostly unnecessary. Maybe this is a sign that Telltale should mix up their episodic structure some more.
27 Jun 2014
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More Thoughts on a More Complex Form of Moral Choice in Video Games
When we talk about video games, we don't seem to have the same understanding of "choice" as we do in other media or even in real life.
24 Jun 2014
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Moving Pixels Podcast: The Fairy Tale of the Economic Downturn
The Wolf Among Us explores a very real broken economy through the unreal lives of its fairy tale inspired characters.
23 Jun 2014
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Towards a More Complex Form of Moral Choice in Video Games: 'The Wolf Among Us'
Despite how it may look on the surface, The Wolf Among Us doesn't follow standard approach to morality in games exactly, but instead builds on the idea of options not being built on a binary system at all.
17 Jun 2014
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Moving Pixels Podcast: The Seamier Side of Fairy Tales
On this episode of the Moving Pixels Podcast, we explore just how bad we can make the Big Bad Wolf in The Wolf Among Us.
31 Mar 2014
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Illusions, Interactivity, and 'The Wolf Among Us'
Part of what makes a great game great is how well it fosters its own illusion.
14 Mar 2014
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The Horror of 'The Wolf Among Us: Smoke & Mirrors'
Smoke & Mirrors is a strange play experience: not particularly interesting mechanically and certainly not fun, but nevertheless unique and entrancing.
27 Feb 2014
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Hard Boiled Combat: Enduring the Quick Time Event
The Wolf Among Us's quick time events typify the hard boiled genre better than any elegant combat system would or than any analytically driven puzzle solving might. Moments less to be won than to be survived or endured.
11 Dec 2013
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Moving Pixels Podcast: Neon Noir Fairy Tales
Telltale Games returns with a game of choices and consequences, but this time out those hard decisions are embedded in the completely fantastic world of Fables, not the relative social realism of a zombie apocalypse.
25 Nov 2013
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'The Wolf Among Us' Builds a World in Four Buttons
The extent to which a story is interactive isn’t defined by how many buttons we press, but how important each button press is.
22 Nov 2013
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Bigby and Bitches: A Big Bad Wolf That Can't Bear Misogyny
The fantasy world of The Wolf Among Us allows for a wolf to actually respond to the demeaning quality of the word that humans so often use to define the females of his whole species. And unlike a lot of human beings, he seems pretty unhappy about it.
13 Nov 2013
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Playing Detective in 'The Wolf Among Us'
Telltale must walk a fine line between satiating their fan base and deviating enough from The Walking Dead so as to distinguish their newest title both thematically and mechanically.
24 Oct 2013
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