#video game studies

[vamptoll]

[slime-crafters]

The best thing about the new stardew update is you can tell concerned ape got comfortable just being fucking weird. Which is understandable considering most indie devs have to be some level of insane

[sofy-tofy]

Marina amiibo study (incomplete)

[cautiouscrab]

Alright so after having looked through hypnos’ new design I have something to say. The poppies.

So I’ve already seen someone post about this ( @blamethecows-draws ) and yes!! Poppies do symbolize his son, but they are also closely related to Hypnos himself. Now I’m not sure how they were in terms of Ancient Greece (unfortunately my Ancient Greece knowledge is shaky at best), but I am aware of this particular painting from 1874: Sleep and his Half-Brother Death

In this painting, Hypnos (depicted closest to the audience) holds a few poppies in his hand. Poppies, to my knowledge, were flowers that symbolized not only him as a god, but also death (hence why Thanatos is there too)

What’s interesting, though, is that poppies also symbolize a hope for a more peaceful/calm future. I think that this potentially could tie into the whole PLOT of the game, which is trying to take down the calamity that Kronos has caused

So tldr: poppies symbolize death, the God Hypnos, and hope for a calm future, which is kinda the whole plot of Hades II

[retrogamingblog2]

[nicholasandriani]

ARE VIDEO GAMES ART?

Are video games art? The question of whether video games are art has been a contentious one, with different perspectives offered by various thinkers in the field of technology and art. “I’m real!“ One of the most prominent voices against the idea that video games are art is that of film critic Roger Ebert, who famously wrote in a 2010 blog post that “video games can never be art.” Ebert argued…

[mikashida]

revengeance raiden my beloved

[zevrt1]

Study of the Ketheric Thorm screenshot my sis did during our cooperative walkthrough in BG3 added some changes tho, will upload process video in Instagram later probably qwq

[heatherchasesyou]

A buncha Vincent sketches plus an experimental one

[kawardt]

Kim kitsuragi from widely acclaimed game called disco disco disco

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Very important links:)))

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[thelailasblog]

[physpa]

wife is wifing💏

[uncanny-tranny]

This might be a half-baked theory, but I wonder how much of the "think of the children!!" ideals that are almost... aimed at women rely on the idea of women as Forever Children.

What I notice is that a lot of these ideas of corruption in youth are feminized in a way that evokes motherhood, but I also notice that many people blur the lines between women or anybody forced into or expected to be women and children so that they are as one.

[sh1anhua]

my new obsession

[retrogamingblog2]

[nonbinarygerard]

some fanart i made of the video game GRIS