The Rise of Low Sodium & Gentle Gaming

The greatest power of games is that you can explore this landscape of different agencies. The greatest danger of games is that you can get sucked into this experience of just craving and wanting to be in a clear, crisp and gentle universe where you know exactly what to do and exactly how well it’s measured.

For the sake of post-nutshell clarity, assertions like literature is inherently more serious than games boil down to two anxieties, one material and one aesthetic:

1) The underfunding of the humanities. As college deans and corporate executives shred venues dedicated to reading, writing, and the instruction of reading and writing, many of literature... See more

How people experience the world is changing, with gamers saying that the most attractive element of an immersive game is the story, and with the majority of younger generations playing games, creating a compelling brand story is becoming an increasingly attractive point of differentiation.

it is becoming more and more difficult, and unlikely, for people playing different games to even talk to each other. Indeed, a common conceit of some media games is that “nobody is talking about this.” We are losing a shared language. It is not that we arrive at different answers about the same questions, but that our stories about the world have d... See more

The language of video games is largely unexplored, artistically speaking, and it’s exciting because of their immense cultural impact.