Wolfgang Westdorp

So small lie, I have been working on stuff during my self imposed vacation. Nothing to do directly with my on going projects, more learning new tools and finishing old projects that got lost in the weeds with my focus turned to Goon Game. For instance, this essay was going to be a blog post originally, but once it got to the sixth page and I started citing books I decided to run with it as a full paper rather then just something I get off my chest. Then, recently, it turned i

Much has changed since the last update, and I want to talk through all of it to some degree — mainly so it’s out in the open and I can move on to new pastures. Something this post was going to cover in its entirety, that was, until I hit the two-thousand-word mark with only one talking point. So with respect for you, the reader's time, and not losing myself to the show, what follows is that first talking point. In the weeks to come, the others, more focused on the project its

Back in 2022, when Elden Ring and God of War: Ragnarök were revealed to have both been nominated for that year's Best Narrative in Games...

On January 30th, 2024, Yager Studio’s Spec-ops: The Line was delisted from digital retailers due to music licenses within the game...

I was given a book a while back called Steal Like an Artist  that detailed the author’s creative process as a novelist and cartoonist,...

There was this controversial update in the early access days of Darkest Dungeon, the Lovecraftian dungeon crawler gem released back in...

There is a good chance that my explaining what kind of game Elden Ring  is would be redundant, as it has been the talk around town since...

It’s a strange feeling having your suspicions confirmed. An unsettlingly gratifying mix of smug self-satisfaction for being right and the...

This is going to be partly my retrospective for sprint 9. But not really because no one showed up to test, so that sprint is kind of a...

So I was going to attach this to my next retrospective, but the more I think about it, the longer it gets, and the better serving option...

I (at the time of writing) have over 200 hours in Baulder’s Gate Three but have not beaten the game once. This is partly due to my...

So Baulder’s Gate 3 came into my life recently, and in payment, I have given it one hundred hours of my life so far. It’s just one of...

So I, like other degenerates, have been watching Chainsaw Man, and while it got off to a rocky start in episode one, the show has been...

So it's been a hot hour since I last put anything of worth up here, and while I can make the excuse that it's because of my schedule,...

Recently, a thought occurred to me regarding the nature of linearity in games and, by extension, some of the current dissatisfaction with...

As gaming grows larger by the day, the question of Accessibility comes up more frequently. Gone are the days when video games were solely...

There has been a school of thought that video games should be taking more cues from movies and television as they move to tell more...

In the past, Dragon Age and Mass Effect were, to me, exemplars of what can be done with games in terms of narrative design; and I held...

Many moons ago, I wrote about how Byleth being a silent protagonist harmed Three Houses' ability to characterize Byleth as well as other...

I've written in the past about the importance of character voice regarding silent protagonists, characters that are to exist as quiet...