Aug 1, 2019How And Why To Watch A Fighting GameI love fighting games. I also want you to love fighting games. I’d like for us to love fighting games together, because they’re as fun or more to watch as they are to play. But, much the same way that fighting games take a lot of work to play at…Gaming12 min read
Dec 19, 2018Is Empathy Degradation Real? How To Make People Love Blacksmiths In Video GamesI am no longer on Twitter, but I was somehow able to read this thread about “empathy degradation,” and it was pretty interesting. In the thread, Kris Ruff identifies a challenge of narrative design she calls “empathy degradation”; as players push against the limits of authored content and begin to…Gaming6 min read
Jun 7, 2018Fandom, Harassment, and Mistaking Criticism and CreationWe were tired of hearing the same things before, but the fatigue feels deeper now. “Vocal Minority” was cold comfort when it was used to describe the neo-reactionary movement that swept video games in 2015 and spread quickly to other other segments of niche culture, and since the neo-reactionary movement…Fans11 min read
Feb 15, 2017Nico In The City—1I’m Nico. Don’t believe everything you’ve heard about me. I’m in love. Don’t worry though. I’m getting over it. I don’t even really like the guy; it came out of nowhere. He did something out of the blue and I fell in love with it. He’s very uninterested in me…Fiction4 min read
Published in ZEAL·Jan 6, 2017Hi there followers of ZEAL! We’re doing a stream as a donation drive for ZEAL this Saturday @ 7 PST! We’ll play Hitman and old horror games. Follow us on twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/mammonmachinezeal It’s going to be a lot of fun and I hope ya’ll come! If this is popular, we’ll do more in the future.1 min read
Published in ZEAL·Dec 29, 2016Last Take of The YearTracer is gay, which is cute, though I tend to react immediately with a kind of strident point of view about representation, and that’s because I think it is important that we control our own stories. This sentiments are very important to me or I wouldn’t keep writing about them…LGBTQ5 min read
Published in ZEAL·Dec 14, 2016ZEAL: MembershipHey there everyone! I’m just letting you know that we’re trying something new here; Medium is setting up a new thing called membership, which allows you to fund our publication (and get access to member-exculsive content!) directly through medium. We’re really excited for this, so if you’ve been following our publication for a while and have enjoyed the stuff we put out, please consider donating so we can do more of it and better!1 min read
Published in ZEAL·Dec 14, 2016Welcome To ZEALTHANK YOU SO MUCH! For real, this is how we’re able to do anything at all. Watch this space for when we start producing original content, but thank you for supporting us and we’ll have great stuff ready for you soon.1 min read
Published in ZEAL·Dec 14, 2016ZEAL Membership On MediumA new way to support ZEAL directly through Medium, and access exclusive content from the Editor’s desk — Welcome to ZEAL. ZEAL is a online publication of alternative pop culture criticism, comics, games, and everything else we can reasonably squeeze into it. …Humor2 min read
Published in ZEAL·Dec 14, 2016ZEAL Submission GuidelinesZEAL IS CURRENTLY DEFUNCT. THE SUBMISSION GUDIELINES SHALL REMAIN OPEN FOR ARCHIVE PURPOSES, HOWEVER, CONTACT INFORMATION HAS BEEN REMOVED. Due to the number of submissions we receive, can’t always reply to or accept every submission we get. Our apologies! We often will work with writers on pitches, especially if we…Writing3 min read
