The short answer is no. The long answer is that it’s not so cut and dry. Technology is a tool. When a new piece of technology comes into being, it is inherently stateless. By stateless, I mean that there is no intrinsic bias. The resulting bias is not because of…

I was asked to write a bit about colour grading in film, but I am a game developer, not a cinematographer, or colourist. As such I cannot talk about the intricacies of colour grading in film. Interestingly enough though, is that colour grading is also a part of the visual…

In the creative landscape, regardless of what niche you may fall into, be it sculptor, painter, author, illustrator, the end goal is to invoke a thoughtful and visceral response in the consumer. That response can be anything from the bewilderment of why a work exists, to awe at the depth…

The short simple answer is no. The long more complex answer is that the death of the author is contextual. It depends on the purpose of the work, as some exist outside the author, while others incorporate the author into the mythology of the work. Hideaki Anno is no different…

Postmodernism can be defined in three statements No Truth. No Meaning. No Certainty. Along with postmodernism came the concept of poststucturalism, which is the concept on which the death of the author is based. The philosophies of postmodernism and the death of the author are inextricably linked, and I have…

The short answer is that it depends on the game. The long answer is a little more complicated than that. In the essay The Shortcomings Of Mass Media And The Culture Industry (Clements, 2020), it talks about how art involves a narrative and has a visceral feeling attached to it…

I’ve never particularly been a fan of mindless mass media. It gets boring after a while. It happened to the Simpsons, it happened to Family Guy, Futurama and American Dad and a host of others in between. The culture industry takes something that does, or once had a cultural significance…