Archives for 2018 | With A Terrible Fate

The Drawing Board: Gameplay Difficulty as a Storytelling Tool

On Episode 8 of our podcast, we ask: how can difficulty tell a story?

By Aaron Suduiko, 7 years ago July 11, 2018

Read the first chapter of an analytically grounded, fan-written story that bridges the gap between Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess.

By CJ Thomas, 7 years ago July 10, 2018

What do NieR: Automata and Rear Window have in common? Find out in our latest podcast episode.

By Aaron Suduiko, 7 years ago June 14, 2018

How are games like Dark Souls, Zelda, and Okami making new forms of storytelling possible? Find out in With a Terrible Fate's PAX East talk.

By Aaron Suduiko, 7 years ago June 9, 2018

Why develop a canon for video-game storytelling? Watch With a Terrible Fate discuss this at PAX East, along with a debate about Paper Mario.

By Aaron Suduiko, 7 years ago June 3, 2018

How can works of fan fiction empower all fans of a series to see it in a new light? With a Terrible Fate took to PAX East to find out.

By Aaron Suduiko, 7 years ago June 3, 2018

16 years ago, one Disney/Final-Fantasy crossover gave birth to a new series. How did the first Kingdom Hearts change storytelling?

By Dan Hughes, 7 years ago May 22, 2018

In a decade that gave us a library of games about orphans, EarthBound reminded us how important fathers are to their sons.

By Max Gorynski, 7 years ago May 22, 2018

God of War took classic Greek mythology and established a brutal lore all its own. Does it belong in the pantheon of great storytelling?

By Dan Hughes, 7 years ago May 6, 2018

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

By Aaron Suduiko, 7 years ago April 24, 2018