Video Game Academia
Course Objectives
Making friends and saving the world through academic discourse about video games.
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Readings
The Legend (and Brutality) of Brutal Legend
Our story begins with one of the greatest video game developers of all time: LucasArts. LucasArts started life as Lucasfilm Games in 1979, originally created by George Lucas himself in an effort to explore the artistic possibilities of video games, shortly after the success of Star Wars. In creating Lucasfilm Games, Lucas worked closely with…
99 Hours of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Part Three)
If you haven’t, perhaps read PART ONE first? ACT III: In which we discuss the final revelations of this game, the theme of grief as it is represented by its characters, and its personal stakes: for the characters, for me, and for the rest of the audience Act II concludes with devastating failure: Lumière is…
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