Here Be Monsters In Defense of Tank Controls By Emma Kostopolus • March 5th, 2025 We don’t need to throw the super cool atmospheric and mechanically interesting baby out with the bathwater of outdated hardware limitations.
Here Be Monsters The Fable of Myhouse.wad, or: Why We Should All Be Scared of ChatGPT By Emma Kostopolus • February 5th, 2025 Every time someone uses text or art generated by an LLM, they have allowed the AI to make decisions about the final composition.
Here Be Monsters Same as It Ever Was: Narrative Fidelity and the Art of the Remake By Emma Kostopolus • January 10th, 2025 Silent Hill 2 Remake feels more like a retelling of a classic tale, almost a myth, than a remake of a singular media property.
Here Be Monsters The Discomfort of “Hello Neighbor” in Contemporary America By Emma Kostopolus • November 7th, 2024 The people under the tightest scrutiny are already the most vulnerable – our queer, trans, and POC neighbors.
Here Be Monsters Spoopy, Not Spooky: The Intersections of Cozy Games and Horror By Emma Kostopolus • September 4th, 2024 While on the surface they’re fairly dissimilar, there’s pretty substantial evidence that the Venn Diagram of spooky vs. cozy game enjoyers has a large middle section.
Here Be Monsters HR is Having a Field Day: Still Wakes the Deep as the Lovecraftian Banal By Emma Kostopolus • August 7th, 2024 Still Wakes the Deep is essentially just being stuck in Hell with all your worst coworkers.
Here Be Monsters I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: The Terror of Tamagotchi By Emma Kostopolus • May 31st, 2024 This is not a cute piece of nerd nostalgia, but a brutal PsyOp designed to drive us to the brink of despair.
Here Be Monsters In Defense of the Jump Scare: A Manifesto By Emma Kostopolus • March 5th, 2024 Jump scares function as a necessary pressure-release valve for the experience of watching horror, thus allowing the experience to be less unrelentingly tiring.
Here Be Monsters Loading the Gun: Simulation and Realism in Horror Mechanics By Emma Kostopolus • February 8th, 2024 Horror in game mechanics arises from the difference in how we interact with things that are realistic versus things that absolutely are not.
Here Be Monsters It’s an Evil Effing Room: Level Design in Horror By Emma Kostopolus • January 3rd, 2024 In thinking about horror level design, we can work to uncover a lot of the general horror philosophy behind some of our most beloved franchises.
