Tag: Death

Friction Burns

The primary teenage exocolonist stands to the left with some holographic cards floating from their hand as they stare at the viewer, and the rest of the gang poses in the background in a variety of stylish and skin-baring outfits

I Was A Teenage Exocolonist: Let’s Do The Time Warp Again(?)

By Ruth Cassidy • September 14th, 2022

Consequences matter when you decide, but sometimes death is useful.

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Death is Not the End

By Nicholas Straub • October 20th, 2020

The inhabitants of the Dark Souls universe seek a hero to rekindle the first flame, for without it, they believe, all life will cease. But they are wrong.

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Accepting Death as the Sun Goes Out

By Ryan Cooper • April 2nd, 2020

The Outer Wilds’ tragic time-loop helps Ryan Cooper process real-world struggles.

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Games About Death (Are Stuck In a Rut)

By Mark Hill • December 2nd, 2019

Why has the treatment of death in certain indie games become so predictable?

Cribbage With Grandpa and Dad

By Levi Rubeck • September 26th, 2019

Levi plays Cribbage With Grandpas, a game that conjures surprising memories of his ailing father.

In bullet-hell, tactics, and life, man plans and god/nature/the universe laughs. You can drill those fingers or try to anticipate every possible outcome, but in the end we are flawed beings living at the whims of the cosmos.

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Not Enough Time

By Stu Horvath • May 2nd, 2018

Look, we’re all going to die. The real tragedy is that we’ll leave unread books on the shelf when we do. Or is it?

a white slug cat standing on top of a red chicken legged walker in a post apocalyptic world.

Rain World’s Brutal Metaphysics

By Sam Zucchi • February 27th, 2018

The circle of life is not a metaphor for the operation of an ecosystem, but a lived reality; sometimes you are prey and sometimes you are predator—but you will remember either way.

A Good Death

By Sophie Turner • February 17th, 2017

Death is often mishandled in videogames, but an upcoming release promises a different approach underpinned by a movement of death positivity.

Bringing Back The Dead In Films

By Michael Edwards • February 10th, 2017

Just because we have the technology to do this doesn’t mean we have to do it.

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The Fear in a Handful of Dust

By Gavin Craig • November 1st, 2016

“My fears are mundane things. I grew out of ghosts and monsters long ago…”

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None Up

By Stu Horvath • September 11th, 2015

My gran, my mother’s mother, is dying. All I can think about are extra lives.

An Open Field

By Ansh Patel • September 8th, 2015

“Even if we had another chance, another life to live, we would make mistakes again. Maybe the same ones.” Ansh Patel discusses physical and virtual death.

Unwinnable Weekly Issue Fourteen

By Stu Horvath • September 12th, 2014

Stu Horvath has a back to school flashback and introduces the stories in the latest issue of Unwinnable Weekly.

Pretension +1: Come Through

By Gus Mastrapa • November 15th, 2013

Last weekend we buried my friend Carlos Batts on the side of a hill in Glendale. It was the magic hour, so the sun and smog conspired to give mourners a Tony Scott panorama of downtown Los Angeles while we pondered the loss of a friend gone too soon. In attendance were the bent and burnt of Hollywood. I counted more than a few pornographers in black, models with tattoos spilling from dress sleeves too. One dude looked like a East L.A. biker. More than a few bore the cultivated look of art collectors and gallery owners – pricey-looking clothes