The Women that Gaming got Right: Portal’s GLaDOS
The Women that Gaming got Right is an ongoing series looking at the best female characters that gaming has to offer. 99% of the time video games represent women pretty…
The Women that Gaming got Right: Bioshock Infinite’s Elizabeth
The video game industry doesn’t really understand women that well. There are a lot fewer women making games than there are men, and a lot fewer women being represented by…
Gaming’s Low Standards of Writing
Video game writing is rubbish. Not all of it, sure, but for the most part, it’s rubbish. And not just big budget, AAA, blockbuster titles – most indie games have…
The Failure of Dear Esther
Last week, Artistry in Games ran a piece by Suzanne Verras entitled ‘The Art of Video Games as Interactive Stories: Dear Esther’, which celebrated the acclaimed indie title. She argued…
Video Games and the Lost Art of Cinematography
Cinematography is a bit of an alien concept to most video games. As the name might suggest, it relates primarily to cinema, involving the fine details of the composition of…