Wolfgang Westdorp

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...

Originally I wanted to compare Far Cry 3 and 4 as it was Far Cry 3 that set the thematic standard for the next two mainline games in the...

Themes are the maypole that all else is spun around. Without it, the elements of the story are but ribbons in the wind: directionless,...

Let it be known at the top that there are two forms of agency in games. The first is conventional narrative agency, or a character’s...

As the medium we all love and admire continues to grow before our very eyes, the various facets of games grow as well. Tech becomes...

There is a misconception that games can not teach us anything if not directly educational. A notion I would like to rebuke as it...

With the release of Fire Emblem: Three Houses and the disappearance of over 30 hours of my life, I have encountered an interesting...

I find Villains fascinating, and they are one of my favorite things to dissect when interpreting media. It's much more interesting to...

As I sit staring at a blank page that will one day be a novella, I am reminded of a terse conversation I had with my roommate in October...

Heads up: One of the examples talks about Sexual Assault. A thought occurred to me when writing the Setting entry, something I wanted to...

Now you might have been reading the previous entries and thought to yourselves, "well, this is good and all, but what about people who...

So, I have not played any games with much narrative leaning this week. This is in part because, at the time of writing, my second...

For the past few weeks, I've been engrossed in Super Giant's new game Hades, an isometric hack and slash rouge-like wherein you play as...

First impressions are everything, especially in media. That initial hook for people to latch onto is critical for creating a lasting and...