**Warning: Excessive gif usage ahead** I don't if you're aware of this but the Legend of Korra is pretty great. It's the literal spiritual successor to Avatar: The Last Airbender - get it? 'Cause Korra is the reincarnation of Aang and it's also a s…
Recently in between trying to salvage something readable out of a paper written on Tomb Raider, cleaning a messy apartment, and battling a pest problem, this writer bought and played the Steam version of downloadable Ouya game Towerfall, Towerfall:…
***Mild Spoilers Ahead*** Let me start out by saying, I don't hate South Park. I actually quite enjoy it in all it's satirical, ridiculous, toilet humour shenanigans. I'm aware of its many, many missteps over the years in how they choose to …
The following is a statistical analysis of the League of Legends Champion's character design from a gendered perspective. In this analysis data was collected directly from the champion profiles listed on leagueoflegends.com/champions. Data is valid…
Lets start with Genji Monogatari. The tale of Genji is a piece of classical japanese literature written by lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in 11th century Japan at the height of the Heian era. The tale follows the life and adventures of a beautifu…
Dollhouses have been historically used as interpretive play spaces where the user can explore social constructs. The goal of this essay is to merge the analysis of dollhouses, originating from the 16th century concept of miniatures and deconstruct …
Image Credit: opensourceway. Open source is rapidly becoming one of the most influential communities of our time, but I have been noticing more recently that many open source projects are lacking in female founders, contributors, and supporters. So…
This past Friday (March 14th) I was invited to speak on a Women within Games panel at the University of Alberta's "Can you DiG it?" Humanities Computing Conference. In this post I want to quickly summarize the panel and discuss some of the issues t…
For Valentine's day I was gifted with a copy of Bravely Default. Released by Square Enix this game is the "spiritual successor" to the 2010 Nintendo DS game Final Fantasy: the 4 Heroes of Light. It is interesting that Square Enix has chosen to foll…
This article is intended to be a jumping off point for a discussion about LGBTQ* representations in games, and in game culture. The main goal of writing this blog post is to share thoughts, resources, and open a discussion. If in reading this, you …