arcane cache: Review to "Absent minded", a short, hard hitting hypertext story with a design and writing full of dreamlike atmosphere and some cool utilization of gameplay design for storytelling.
The Liberation is a short hyperlink fiction game done with the Twine-Engine.
The story is about a revolutionary who is sitting in an embassy, isolated from the outside and cut from his comrades since many years. He is pining to walk, and if it is for the last time, on the nearby street, knowing that this would be his certain death...
Arcane Cache: Review to Carcosa, a faithful rendition of a poem as video game.
This game holds an elegant, hypnotic beauty and goes down the path of minimalism in a bolt and consequent way that makes it rather unique – the playtime is probably around one minute. It is an adaption of a poem that doesn’t really attempt to refresh anything, and isn’t interested in re-contextualization; this is an approach that bears the risk of gliding into a uncritical relation to the source material, and of getting a bit dusty – the game plays very much like a game that was released when the poem came out could have looked like, like a forged relict from an era that predates the medium; and looking at the developer and their affiliation with goth this might have been exactly what they wanted to do.
My biggest pet peeve about audiobooks is how, in so many of them, there is no pause when there’s a change of scene within a chapter. It’s jarring to have a sudden change in POV or locale or time without any kind of marker. I often have to rewind to figure out what just happened. In a book, you can see these changes. There will be paragraph breaks, or some sort of typographical break. Why aren’t more audiobooks savvy with this? A pause of a second or two would do the trick. #audiobooks#books#bookstadon#narration
For those that don't know, I do voiceover narration as well as audio drama. Recently I had the pleasure of narrating "Create Destruction I" by Ryan Kovacs, a sci-fi story about a young man who gains immense destructive power through isolation and torture. Written in free verse, this project needed a very stylized approach to storytelling to reflect the protagonists' depression and disconnection.
You know if you're going to put a book on audible, please really consider who is narrating. I've had to click past so many interesting sounding books because the sample narration was abysmal.
I know I tend to be a little sensitive auditory wise, but fucking yikes. I can't even understand what I'm listening to because the narration is almost distracting-- mostly because my inner voice is saying "this narrator is horrible, please turn this off. I can't take it."
Some people (who consider themselves narration experts) are debating whether the Empire in Star Wars has an ideology or if it's just a generic bad guy, and I just can't...
Have we fallen that low that people who supposedly know what they're talking about can't even recognize fascism in a not-so-subtle metaphor?