hail fellow well met
I’m Aysha, a game designer and scifi writer who recently became a laid off game designer and scifi writer and is now drifting on the ocean of unemployment like a blissed-out starfish. According to my wife I “seem much happier”. I don’t know if that’s true, but I do think we’ve hit the level of fuckery in the last couple weeks that everything is sort of sliding off me like… how stuff slides off a starfish, I don’t actually know how starfish work.
Anyway. I’m planning to use this as a place to talk about games that I like, focusing on storytelling, themes, and narrative design. A couple planned articles at this point are:
Alan Wake 2 - how Remedy managed to recreate the exact experience of trying to write something long-form utilizing musical numbers, surrealism, and eyeliner
Dishonored 2 - this game is about being gay. sorry.
Pathologic 2 - this game is about colonialism. not sorry about this one
Disco Elysium - this game has a big bug at the end that smashes all the notions that the story is nihilist to pieces
So, if any of this sounds good, please subscribe! And once I figure out how to charge money for these, please give me some money! That’s all for now, peace.
-Aysha