For this week’s journal, I will be discussing the video game Cuphead and how it relates to Mary Flanagan’s theory on Critical Play. Cuphead was created by Studio MDHR by brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer and is a platform run and gun game. What makes the game stand out in…

For this week’s journal entry, I decided to base it on the first chapter of Yakuza 0, a video game distributed by SEGA. The game is based on the real world Yakuza, a syndicate of Japanese gang members. In this first chapter, there is an interesting example of how Yakuza…

For this week’s entry, I decided to focus on a video game glitch that is well known in the Grand Theft Auto community. This glitch is known as Blue Hell and can be found in many Grand Theft Auto Games, such as GTA San Andreas, GTA IV and GTA V…

The concept of a glitch is very complex and interesting, and the way that I define it in a broad sense is the visual and auditory distortion of a digital product that creates catharsis for the viewer, whether it be intended or not. From viewing the module for this week…

For this week’s journal entry, I chose to discuss a different mod for Fallout 4. This time, the mod I chose contrasts a lot in comparison to the original narrative of the story. The Atom Bomb Baby Mod is a comical and twisted modification of the Fat Man, which is…

Since the prompt for this week is based on game modding, I decided to choose Fallout 4 since there are a lot of mods for the game online. After browsing mods on bethesda.net for a while, I settled on a mod called “Ultimate Jetpack Ring” by user LGBSHI. What this…

For this week, I chose to play Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for my journal entry. I chose this game specifically not only because it is a classic, but because I remember hearing about its engine, RenderWare, a lot some time ago. It is a graphics rendering engine and 3D…

The game I chose for this journal entry is not a particularly new game, but nonetheless is a rendition of a classic video game. I played a few levels from the first Crash Bandicoot game in the Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, where I observed a few technicities that I never…