E-soterica Exploring Japanese Transgender Themes in One Night, Hot Springs By Khee Hoon Chan • June 12th, 2018 “I didn’t want the game to be too heavy or dark because there are already too many games out there with bad endings for LGBT+ people,” shared KC. “I wanted to approach the topic in a way that would leave players with a lighter heart”
E-soterica Exploring Spaces in These Indie Platformers By Khee Hoon Chan • May 15th, 2018 In most platformers, we waffle a little, and then take a leap of faith from one scaffolding to the next, and perhaps over a deadly pit of lava and spikes.
E-soterica The Quiet Exclamation of ASMR By Khee Hoon Chan • April 3rd, 2018 “We don’t really choose our bodies, or the way they fail us, and I feel this is one reason trans people seem to connect with the theme of body horror,” said Soria. “For me, it’s mostly the way I’m seen that feels different from who I am.”
E-soterica Speed Dating for Ghosts: A New Lease on Death By Alyse Stanley • February 22nd, 2018 Speed Dating for Ghosts proves that even the afterlife can get boring if you don’t have someone to share it with.
E-soterica Experience Melancholia In Just Two Minutes By Khee Hoon Chan • February 13th, 2018 30 Seconds to Midnight brings to mind the sublime but sorrowful Lars von Trier film Melancholia, which depicts the world’s end in an unorthodox manner—a inevitable planetary collision, devoid of typical Hollywood bombast.
