Through the Looking-Glass of Black Mirror's 'Bandersnatch'
Netflix's interactive movie, Bandersnatch, doesn't really offer choices, but it does offer something else: a warning.
07 Jan 2019
Netflix's interactive movie, Bandersnatch, doesn't really offer choices, but it does offer something else: a warning.
The staff at the World Video Game Hall of Fame have, with great care, winnowed down objects in the medium that they feel best represents the important developments in the history of the video game.
Online games make it easier than ever to design and test masks and to experience the hopes, fears, benefits, and harms of reinvention.
Dominic Arsenault's Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware cuts through the nostalgia so sharply that it comes off as dismissive, hostile even, at least to someone used to reading the flowery prose of fan literature.
You might care about the concepts raised in Gaming Representation, but you probably won't be able to understand them.
Just as you interrogate your companions and enemies in order to understand them and their worlds, the game reveals itself to have been questioning you. What kind of player are you? What kind of person?
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