Temporal Experience and Medieval Contemplation in The Longing
Jessica Iolanda Costa Bispo The Longing (2020) can easily be perceived as an unconventional video game. It invites the player to take control of a small creature known simply as Shade, who is tasked…
Ecology and the non-human
The Wilderness, Self-Reliance and Community in Medieval Dynasty
Poppy Tester In the 2021 RPG Medieval Dynasty, the player builds and manages a medieval settlement. In the original game, the playable protagonist is Racimir. He is an eighteen-year-old refugee at the…
Tides of Pestilence: Mechanizing Eco-Anxiety within a Fourteenth-Century Dystopia
Blair Apgar As global environments rapidly degrade, the psychological toll on humanity has increasingly manifested as “eco-anxiety”—a condition Panu Pihkala identifies as rooted in feelings of uncertainty and uncontrollability regarding the global…