Persephone's (Gothic) Insights

This interview for "Vintage to Retro" is with FrostyXen. Despite having his own YouTube channel , he's also  a world record-holder for Doom Eternal . I've also interviewed him about  Doom Eternal  before . This time, we'll be talking about the  Halo  series. This series, "FPS: From Vintage to Retro," interviews FPS players and developers. In terms of vintage FPS, the series covers includes single-player "Doom clones" and Build titles; to multiplayer frag-fests like Doom deathmatch, Quake arenas, and Unreal Tournament(s); to "pure," arcade-style shooters, "looter shooters" and FPS-RPG hybrids. In terms of retro FPS, it examines Dusk, Ion Fury and Prodeus, as well as  Nightdive Studios ' latter-day revival of classic FPS. Click here to access the entire series  and read about its research goals. Nick: Before we dive into Halo , a brief refresher for our audience: Frosty, Halo 3 is your favorite game of all time, but you&#

This interview of "Vintage to Retro" is with my friend Alecandstuff. Now a Twitch live streamer , Alec was originally a Top 500  Overwatch  player. We'll largely be talking about multiplayer FPS like  Counter Strike  and  Valorant , but also MOBA hybrids. Multiplayer games tend to be live service and competitive, so we'll discuss that as well. This series, "FPS: From Vintage to Retro," interviews FPS (first-person shooter) players and developers. In terms of vintage FPS, the series covers includes single-player "Doom clones" and Build titles; to multiplayer frag-fests like Doom deathmatch, Quake arenas, and Unreal Tournament(s); to "pure," arcade-style shooters, "looter shooters" and FPS-RPG hybrids. In terms of retro FPS, it examines Dusk, Ion Fury and Prodeus, as well as Nightdive Studios ' latter-day revival of classic FPS. Click here to access the entire series and read about its research goals. Introduction Nick: Hi,

This post is the abstract for my upcoming interview series "Mazes and Labyrinths," which interviews speedrunners and Twitch streamers about disempowerment inside Metroidvania and survival horror games. Specifically it examines how mazes and labyrinths, along with their historically "heavy" contents, are used to disempower players.  Updated, 4/16/2023:  I'm currently writing a book called Sex Positivity versus Sex Coercion, or Gothic Communism: Liberating Sex Work under Capitalism through Iconoclastic Art ( a book sample, including my manifesto, is available on here ). Said book touches  on my Metroidvania research, so I finally wanted to share my master's thesis with everyone: " Lost in Necropolis: The Continuation of Castle-Narrative beyond the Novel or Cinema, and into Metroidvania " (2018) It explores the Metroidvania as a kind of Gothic chronotope, one where  speedrunners endlessly generate castle narratives inside .  Update, 4/16/2021: This p