Podcast
With a Terrible Fate Podcast Episode 2: Origin Stories
Episode 2 of WaTF's podcast covers origin stories, player-avatar relations, the challenges of Valhalla, and the ethics of game libraries.
Podcast: The Drawing Board
Meet the Game Analysts: With a Terrible Fate Interviews Adam Bierstedt
Meet Adam Bierstedt, With a Terrible Fate's resident historian, and learn what video games have in common with a 14th-century manuscript.
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Beyond Main Quests: How Horizon Zero Dawn’s Gameplay Killed its Story
Horizon: Zero Dawn offers a new take on an old problem of open-world storytelling.
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Nudgy Controls, Part II
Nathan Randall discusses how control schemes guide storytelling in video games.
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Nudgy Controls, Part I
Nathan Randall's theory of control schemes in video game storytelling.
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The Tragic Irony of Final Fantasy XIII-2
A warning to FFXV of the places where FFXIII went wrong.
A Comprehensive Theory of Majora's Mask
Aliens, cows, and “Assassin’s Creed”: what works, and what doesn’t.
Exploring the anomaly of Them in "Majora's Mask" in comparison to the First Civilization of "Assassin's Creed."
A Comprehensive Theory of Majora's Mask
Want to learn how to design sidequests? Play “Majora’s Mask.”
"Majora's Mask" is exceptional because it offers the most meaningful and ontologically logical sidequests possible of a game.