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LEVEL UP: REMEMBERING LOCAL MULTIPLAYER
As part of the Laurier Pride Society, I’ve been playing a lot of party games with my friends. I’ve also been playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with Laurier’s gaming club […]
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LEVEL UP: FINDING MEANING IN THE MISERY OF THE HARDEST LEVELS
I’ve been playing a LOT of Dark Souls games recently, so obviously my brain worms want to talk about them. Dark Souls has been a unique experience for me even […]
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LEVEL UP: SENSE AND PLAYABILITY IN HORROR GAMES
Content warning for references of self harm and death, and spoilers for Doki Doki Literature Club. Five Nights at Freddy’s (FNAF) is an unbelievably massive franchise. It revolutionized horror in […]
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LEVEL UP: THE FALSE PURSUIT OF OBJECTIVE CRITICISM IN VIDEO GAMES HARMS PLAYERS’ EXPERIENCE
The idea of objective criticism emerges often in the gaming community. It is inevitable that a player will come across some version of “Oh, you like that game? It has […]
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LEVEL UP: OVERLAPPING GENRES CAUSE DIVISION IN VIDEO GAME COMMUNITIES
Gaming is a relatively new art form and a very complex one, so we’re only now starting to see some serious cultural developments taking place. We see this with […]
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LEVEL UP: THE DIFFICULTY OF DEFINING DIFFICULTY
Talking about difficulty in video games is like asking to start a dumpster fire. This topic is easily one of the most contentious things about gaming, with elitism and entitlement […]
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Level Up: Self-Acceptance in Solidarity
Relating to a character and seeing one’s own story in them, as well as the feelings they elicit, is widely regarded as vital to storytelling and writing. The video game […]
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Level Up: The Most Memorable Introduction
Welcome to the first entry to Growing With Games, a column about the meaningfulness of games as art. This introduction piece will fittingly focus on video game intros, specifically the […]
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Queer Space: Gender? IDGAF.
So, gender is not binary. I will be writing this piece assuming the readers are aware of this fact already. With that said, let’s delve into the concept of gender […]
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Queer Space: video games must level up their representation of queer folks
Now that video games are a significantly more mainstream art form, there is a much higher demand for representation of previously ignored groups. Despite queer people being more accepted now […]
