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Podcast: Can Normative Inquiry Become Gaming’s Next “Lore Analysis”?
Could storytellers like Miyazaki push players' motivations beyond crafting timelines—all the way to crafting theories of value?
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With a Terrible Fate Podcast Episode 6: Mass Effect Revisited
Join an analysis of Mass Effect, a discussion of developer intentions behind politics and nostalgia, and a meditation on "multigaming."
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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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LAN Party: What Game Inspired You to Analyze Video-Game Storytelling?
We ask the With a Terrible Fate analysts: what game first inspired you to analyze video-game storytelling?
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The New Game Theory: How to Analyze Video Games (from PAX West)
Full video of With a Terrible Fate's 2017 PAX West presentation.
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Beyond the Moral Binary: Decision-Making in Video Games
Featured Author Richard Nguyen discusses what works and what doesn't in video game morality.
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Why 3 disks were acceptable for Final Fantasy VII, and why 3 games are not for its remake.
How philosophy led me to change my mind about the Final Fantasy VII remake.
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Is the existence of amiibo philosophically justifiable?
On the one-year anniversary of amiibo, With a Terrible Fate explores whether they have any unique value.