Sentences with phrase «discourse around games»

So to discuss «indie criticism», I must also talk about the discourse around games.

Not exact matches

The standard discourse tends to revolve around the new generation of hardware increasing visual fidelity, leading to games that pick away at the borders of the uncanny valley, trying to push into the realms of photorealism.

The discourse around Shovel Knight, the chivalrous and retrofitted platformer released earlier in the week for Wii U, 3DS, and Steam, is that it's a NES game developed a few decades after the fact — very reminiscent of blasting renegade robots with Mega Man or pogo - hopping on a cane with Scrooge McDuck.