Year: 2017

Syntax Error: Role Playing Games

SE presents the second of our ongoing talks within major game genres, this time focusing on the myriad ins, outs, and oddities of role playing games and their related ilk.

MOTS Ado About Nothing: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

The MOTS Ado crew reaches the end of their rope with this review of a Civil War story about a life reclaimed. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge remains Ambrose Bierce’s most enduring work for a reason.

Narratology: The Hero with a Thousand Faces Pt. 5 Emanations and The Virgin Birth

Having completed the Hero’s Journey proper, the Neophytes, like Odysseus’ crew, find their return to be more complex than anticipated.  Follow them through lands of Campbellian addenda, indexes and ancillary topics.

AFI Top 100 #056: Jaws

The Lost Signals crew debates who the real villain of the 1975 classic Jaws is: a misunderstood predator looking for a snack? A plucky small town bureaucrat trying to save the summer?  John Williams?  Spoiler: It is definitely John Williams. [Aggregate score: 10]

MOTS Ado About Nothing: The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl

Today’s episode features our review of the 1955, reality bending short story by Frederik Pohl, The Tunnel Under the World. Coincidentally enough, we’re releasing this on the date before the events of the story. Good luck with June 15th.

 

Cerebral Cinema: eXistenZ

The Lost Signals begins a new mini-series that delves into the ambiguity that is “cerebral” cinema.  We will disentangle the philosophical from the intentionally obscure, the mastered craft from the merely clever twist, and the truly contemplative from the common chicanery. Perhaps it is all just Metaphysics.  First: eXistenZ.

Syntax Error: Interview with HappyRock Studios

SE sits down with the two-person team of Jeremie Duval and Corey Selover, developers at HappyRock Studios, to discuss their recently completed game Zorbit’s Obits, as well as the overall process of its creation and release.

Buy the game at: http://www.zorbitsorbits.com/

http://gamejolt.com/games/zorbitsorbits/248021

https://cg923.itch.io/zorbits-orbits

follow on Twitter:

Jeremie @JeremieDuval ‏

Corey @CoreySelover ‏

Check out some more of Jeremie’s art at: jeremieart.tumblr.com 

Narratology: The Hero with a Thousand Faces Pt. 4 Return and The Keys

The Neophytes finally arrive at a section of myth-narrative studies that they desperately wanted to explore sans their old foe Freud.
Covering Chapters 3 (Return) and 4 (The Keys) in their ongoing reading of The Hero With a Thousand Faces.