April 2018 – With A Terrible Fate

The Drawing Board: What is a “Comprehensive Theory” of a Video Game?

On our latest podcast episode, we chat with two of our team members who are developing “comprehensive theories” of landmark video games.

Some of the most heavily criticized elements of Fire Emblem: Awakening contribute to its narrative in surprising ways.

In the newest episode of our podcast, two of our team members sit down with their high-school mentors to discuss the state of video games.

We asked our team: how would you describe video games to a non-gamer, and what game would you recommend as their intro to the medium?

Think the horror of Doki Doki Literature Club is a simple case of breaking the fourth wall? Look closer.

On this podcast episode, we meet the two With a Terrible Fate analysts who are reconceiving what it means to write fan fiction.

What does the DNA of a Zelda game look like? How can we extrapolate that and use it to tell our own authentic Zelda story?

Does Olimar’s adventure in a bizarre world deserve to be remembered as one of gaming’s great stories?

7 years later, everyone is still talking about Skyrim. How has it changed the storytelling craft of video games?

Explore the legacy of the time with the most criminally underappreciated story of all time.