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July 11th

…a long history in Japan, were until-recently maligned in the west both by a Book culture that hated games and a Games culture that hated books. This chasm was too wide, and the bridges were too weak. However, there’s been a huge influx of young people from a new generation who have now grown up on games like Undertale (2015), Doki Doki Literature Club (2017), and Sally Face (2018) that stem from the success of Kodaka and Uchikoshi’s works, as they were the artists to combine popular Young Adult literature genres with game-show styled rules to make these closed room…

April 25th

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  • Speedrunning Undertale helped me understand my gender better | Polygon Madison Schmalzer discusses breaking the established rules, incrementally perfecting your performance, and finding a new way to play.
  • No Longer Home: Queer Times at LudoNarraCon – GlitchOut Oma Keeling meditates on the experience–and the limits–of finding oneself in someone elses’s art.
  • On Hades and Fatherhood | Sidequest Nola Pfau reflects on Hades, and defying an abusive father (content notifications for familial domestic abuse).

    • “My teenage years are mostly a blur of petty defiances and rebellions. Like Zagreus, I took particular joy in defying my

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    Queer Games Criticism in 2021 (so Far)

    …upon lived experience in a affective piece that contemplates Mineral Town as everything that real rual towns often aren’t: queer, hopeful, happy. In doing so, she charts her own path towards a better future.

  • Dungeons, Dysphoria and Dys: Eternal Space Jail | Haywire Magazine Tess Everman contemplates a wider culture that often misunderstands or misrepresents the reality and experience of dysphoria, as well as a dungeon crawler which, with some caveats, maybe does.
  • Speedrunning Undertale helped me understand my gender better | Polygon Madison Schmalzer parallels speedrunning and transitioning in a very cool article about renegotiating the rules…

    • August 27th

    …an eye out for interesting perspectives on lesser-known games and lower-profile releases. Here are two highlights.

    • Review: Soul Void Dives Deep into Retro Body Horror | Sidequest Kathryn Hemmann plays a subdued Game Boy horror joint that can hang with the likes of Undertale and Yume Nikki.
    • En Garde Review – Flamboyant shenanigans and expert swordplay | Gayming Magazine Rachel Watts buckles up for some swauve swashing in En Garde.

    “As someone whose in-game answer to everything is to punch now, and talk later, En Garde!’s combat system truly inspired me to fight with

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