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The future of literature is video games

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· June 13, 2022 · 1 minute to read

The future of literature is video games

What Disco Elysium proves is you can take an RPG, abstract away all the bullshit about swords and dragons and killing hundreds of bandits (those nameless NPCs who in the game world don’t have families, sisters, mothers), and still have a workable game. That the standard trope of an RPG protagonist being a hobo murderer who just loots corpses to sell their stuff to buy weapons to kill more people to loot more corpses, is not a cosmic inevitability for games.

This game is both familiar and otherworldly, resulting in a strangely uncomfortable yet fun experience. Also, aside: I want to write a paragraph like this one day.


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As Naughty Dog Crunches On The Last Of Us II, Developers Wonder How Much Longer This Approach Can Last

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· March 13, 2020 · 1 minute to read

As Naughty Dog Crunches On The Last Of Us II, Developers Wonder How Much Longer This Approach Can Last

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Backend distributed systems developer, living in southern Ontario, Canada. Occasional rock-climber, frequent video-gamer. Jack of no trades, master also of none.

Keeping notes on things I learn.
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