Category: Essay

• October 25, 2023

  Fran Bow and Little Misfortune

  When Horror is Their Normal: Communication Around Childhood Trauma in Video Games Welcome to Collab Not Multiplayer! This episode is a very special double feature, of Killmonday Games’: Fran Bow and Little Misfortune. First, due to the seriousness of the subject matter I want to acknowledge the clickbaity flippancy of the thumbnail we designed for…
• May 24, 2023

  Superliminal

  Episode 9 takes us into the thematic heart of the puzzle game Superliminal, by Pillow Castle Games. Listen as we explore the ideas found in this playground for perspective on Youtube and Spotify. *******Extras**************** Extra Analysis No One Asked For! Superliminal Addition This analysis assumes you are familiar with the entire storyline of Superliminal and…
• April 26, 2023

  Broken Age

  In our seventh episode of CNM we delve into the delight that is Broken Age. Broken Age is crowd funded point and click adventure game developed by Double Fine Productions. Our episode starts with a spoiler free review and then a spoiler rich discussion/celebration of the game. (Spoiler for the review, we love this game!)…