This was part of a paper presented at a free Romancing the Gothic weekend presentation on the 19th of November 2022. Thanks to Sam as always for their brilliant work. The Gothic has long been preoccupied with what lurks below the surface of the water. The intense isolation of the ship at sea and the…
Media: Cosy Games for Tracey Cheung at Popsugar
“Things in these digital worlds fit into place,” Pinder says. “They turn everyday frustrations into a solvable puzzle and there is something very satisfying and empowering about that.”
Lost in Transmission – Adaptational distortion and The Year of the Angry Rabbit
his post draws on elements from a chapter on rabbit antagonists in film that I have contributed to Beeler’s Animals in Narrative Film and Television. In this chapter, I briefly examined 1972’s Night of the Lepus and 1964’s Year of the Angry Rabbit. But there is so much more to explore in this bizarre book and its…
Protected: “7 days to die” Server Observation
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ASLE Conference 2021 – Embedded Eco-Narratives and the Last of Humanity in Post Apocalyptic Video Games
Extremely Rough Transcript Since their inception, video games have imagined future spaces. Video games make it possible for the player, to not just envisage but explore, post-apocalyptic spaces through environmental storytelling and embedded eco-narratives. These post-apocalyptic spaces are manifestations of contemporary anxieties, allowing the player to interpret the causal relationship between current practices and the…
Replaying Some Distant Memory
When I finished my thesis I really didn’t think I’d be revisiting Some Distant Memory (Galvanic Games 2019) any time in the near future. The story is captivating but it is quite linear. But when I realised how incomplete my notes were from my Masters I was forced to go back to the game before…
The Sinking City – Review
The Sinking City (Ukraine: Frogwares, 2019) Morgan K. Pinder Something sinister is stirring in the depths below Oakmont Massachusetts. It’s the 1920s and private investigator Charles W. Reed is troubled by sinister visions that have drawn him to this mysterious seaside city. What awaits him is a series of disturbing mysteries and a myriad of…
Inscryption – video game review
In my experience as an average video game consumer you don’t find indie gems, somehow they find you. While I love a game that is strange and beautiful I feel terrible for not combing through itch.io looking for these undiscovered masterpieces. As a result of my gaming tastes coupled with laziness I often fall prey…
Spectral Blue; Colour in Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
Image By User:A,Ocram – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44833045 ‘Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a colour…’ – Bluets by Maggie Nelson Maggie Nelson, in her book Bluets (2009), singles out one colour, blue, for special attention, however, it becomes clear very quickly that no colour can exist…
Sexuality in Emily Dickinson’s Poems 14 & 764
Emily Dickinson, rather than constructing a singularly focused representation of sexuality, portrays a continuum of manifestations of sexual desire in her poetry. In ‘One Sister have I in our house, Poem 14’ and ‘My Life had stood – A Loaded Gun, Poem 764’ we can see these desires distinctly differ, not only by the poetic…
MK Pinder Writes 