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March 27, 2015 ToddCorporate Decision Silliness, Games Criticism, Games Journalism, Gendered gaming, Narrative in Games, Rants
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Brofist Intimacy

Just this morning I said that I was pretty close to done when it came to talking about Final Fantasy XV, mostly because, quote: “It’s like shouting at an incoming meteor […]

February 9, 2015February 9, 2015 ToddGames Criticism, Narrative in Games, Sexuality in gaming
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You Can’t Take It Off

Lately, I’m beginning to feel like a bit of a crank when it comes to LGBTQ issues in games. Specifically, I’m worried that I’m being too hard on people who […]

January 14, 2015 ToddGames Criticism, Gendered gaming, Narrative in Games, Sexuality in gaming
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She’s Not That Into You

I want to talk about the part of Dragon Age: Inquisition that made me cry, or at the very least to tear up and force myself to not cry. There are […]

October 21, 2014 ToddGames Criticism, Gendered gaming, Narrative in Games, Sexuality in gaming

Undefined

So let me tell you about the time I annoyed David Gaider at a major gaming event. As many of you know, I spoke at GaymerX2 this July, as did Mr. […]

October 14, 2014March 25, 2015 ToddGaming Reflections, Gendered gaming, Narrative in Games, Sexuality in gaming, Uncategorized
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Janey Springs Eternal

So to continue what appears to be an accidental series of blog posts writing about Gearbox Software’s Borderlands games, I wanted to get something down on paper regarding the newest […]

September 4, 2014September 4, 2014 ToddGames Criticism, Gendered gaming, Narrative in Games, Uncategorized
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On Ellie

Okay, internet. It’s time. After my talk at GaymerX2 on fat characters, and after hearing the folks at Gearbox give their own talk on inclusivity in design, I decided I […]

May 30, 2014 ToddGames Criticism, Narrative in Games, Sexuality in gaming

The Subtle Knife

So there’s this thing that bugs me about being gay and I imagine it bothers a lot of other people on the queer spectrum, too. It mostly comes down to: […]

March 3, 2014 ToddGaming Reflections, Narrative in Games
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Fabula Spoilers Crystallis

So I wrapped up Lightning Returns and in the process I had some thoughts about how the history of the FF13 meta-series has gone down. Thus I just sort of sat […]

January 28, 2014March 9, 2020 ToddGaming Reflections, Narrative in Games, Sexuality in gaming
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Me and Bobby l’Cie

So earlier today on Twitter, Denis Farr and I were discussing how mages in the Dragon Age universe have a lot of queer readings, especially in the sense of political queerness in the […]

October 18, 2013October 18, 2013 ToddGaming Reflections, Narrative in Games, Real Life
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Day in the Sun

So, this semester I’m teaching a course on “Game Design for Expression.” It’s really more of a class on how students — especially students with no technology or game background […]

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