This week at Robot Geek, I talk about comedy in games in Dying Is Easy. It’s an extension of an offhand remark from this post, and a topic I’ll probably revisit at some point. Comedy is fascinating! So here’s what I’m reading this week. Art restoration… er, game modification? Chris Johnson tries to figure out…

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Oh hey guys. So not only have I come down with some gross flu, but my apartment building also has a malfunctioning fire alarm, which has been either beeping steadily or going off at full blast since yesterday!  Upshot is I am taking the day off at Robot Geek. I’ll get back to you when…

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This week at Robot Geek, I discuss my failure to get laid in Persona 3 and what it says about narrative design in Game Stories and Fortunetelling. This was a fun one that I’ve been meaning to write for a while. I’m kind of a huge Tarot card nerd, and I’ve always been fascinated with…

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I return home this week with my injuries, if not my pride, largely healed. Over at Robot Geek I shamelessly wrote about what I did on my summer vacation in Changing Spaces.  I’ve been slow to keep up with my reading over the break, but I can’t go without mentioning Diego Doumecq’s post on Description-Based…

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This week I’m on vacation, so it’s a truncated weekly update.  Over at Robot Geek, I wrote a post called It’s Not the End of the World, about the way games tend to equate failure and death. This post is notable for being typed with one hand, as the other was covered with an ice…

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