Idea Channel: Does Animal Crossing Promote Otaku Citizenship
I think the world is just obsessed with Animal Crossing right now. This is what I love about this channel, I would have never even thought of the Animal Crossing encouraging “Otaku Citizenship”, or...
View ArticleIdea Channel: Can Bullet Hell Games Be Meditative?
I think all sorts of games have the potential to be meditative, not just bullet hells. I know that I have tranced out while playing fighting games like Super Smash Bros. and I’ve seen people do that...
View ArticleIdea Channel: Does Twitch Plays Pokemon Give you Hope for Humanity?
I think Mike brings up some really interesting points and looking at Twitch Plays Pokemon as a social experiment really does kind of bring to light some sort of hope for humanity. Despite mostly being...
View ArticleIdea Channel: How is Ms. Marvel Changing Media for the Better?
This is an idea channel that doesn’t necessarily deal directly with video games, but addresses issues found in both the game and comic communities. I really liked Mike thought that “we are told that...
View ArticleIdea Channel: Could Sports Ever Replace War?
So not related to video games but I think an interesting idea to think about. And uh….Mike says “War, war never changes” from Fallout. I think it’s an interesting thing to think about simply because...
View ArticleExtra Credits and Idea Channel Look at Mechanics and Meaning
Two interesting videos came out yesterday on YouTube each talking about the relationship between players and the mechanics of the games they play. The first video is from Extra Credit with discusses...
View ArticleThe Magic Behind Collecting Amiibo, Skylanders, and Disney Infinity Figures
What do we call something like Amiibo? Are they toys? Are they, themselves a game? Is there a difference? Should there be one? And what about Skylanders? or Disney Infinity, does each little figure...
View ArticleIdea Channel Asks if Undertale is Perhaps the Most Violent Game of 2015
PBS Idea Channel has a video that is kind of related to what I was saying about Undertale last week. Mike has a pretty interesting take on violence in Undertale, where instead of the game forcing the...
View ArticleIdea Channel: Reading Critically into What Fallout has to Say About...
PBS Idea Channel has an interesting reading on the Fallout universe and I wonder if any of it was intentional with the first game. Like, did the writer (writers? I’m not sure) think: “What would have...
View ArticleThe Dark Souls of Idea Channel Episodes
Mike of PBS Idea Channel gives us a really interesting perspective on how Dark Souls has become so genre defining, even to thing that predate it.
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