Syntax Error: Top Games of 2016
It’s a Syntax Error triple kill, as we return in a third season, kicking off with the now traditional top games of the year episode.
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Month: March 2017
Neophytes of Narratology: The Uneasy Merging of Narrative and Gameplay
The Neophytes celebrate the coming third season of Syntax Error by discussing the potential conflicts between narrative and gameplay in video games.
Article: The Uneasy Merging of Narrative and Gameplay by Ara Shirinian
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Neophytes of Narratology: The Hero with a Thousand Faces Part 2
While the Neophytes await their call to adventure, they debate the etiquette of answering a herald, how to politely chase off the trinket-bearing elderly and what exactly Freud would say about their personal threshold guardians.
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Bon MOTS Netflix Roulette: The Hunter
MOTS gets stuck alongside Willem Defoe searching the wilderness for a rare and elusive animal while also trying to decipher the point of this film.
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MOTS Ado About Nothing: Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology by Theodora Goss
MOTS brings real analysis to imaginary anthropology in their discussion of “Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology” by Theodora Goss.
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AFI Top 100 #045: Shane
MOTSterpiece tags along the ranch with a reluctant gunslinger whose name the film will never let you forget, in the titular 1953 western classic, Shane. [Aggregate score 7.5]
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MOTS Ado About Nothing: The Gorgon by Tanith Lee
Recently we read and discussed a short story about the unpredictable nature of adventure. This is our review of The Gorgon by Tanith Lee.
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Game Developers Choice Awards 2017: Winners
Back in January the GDC announced their 2017 game award nominees and I went through a few of the categories, going over the games I thought would win in each as well as the ones I thought should in fact win. Yesterday the actual winners were announced, so now it is time of course to recap, see how I fared in retrospect, and give my final thoughts in the aftermath.
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