Developed by Lucas Pope games, Papers, Please is one of those games that leaves you feeling horrible. Growing up in a place like Arizona puts immigration into a real perspective, and when Papers Please came out, I found myself looking at it first through the scope of a gamer and then through the […]
Identity & Gender in Games: Assassin's Creed
The question of identity takes some special consideration when we talk about a series where a narrator literally changes his identity. In Assassin’s Creed, you can not only play as Desmond Miles, a modern day assassin, but also has several of his ancestors, or you can play as an assassin of the […]
Identity & Agency in Games: Diplomacy
So, you may be looking at this title wondering what is going on. Well ladies and gentleman, for my Fall semester of my senior year, I have enrolled in a Video Games and Rhetoric class. A part of my class, I have decided to do an honors contract, which is […]