Valiant Hearts and “Big G” Game Qualities

I’m a big fan of the game Valiant Hearts, which was released by Ubisoft Montpelier last summer. It’s a game about WWI – but not an exclusively combat-oriented one. Based on my experience, Valiant Hearts falls under what Jim Gee calls “Big G” Games. “Big G” games are more than...

Carl Sagan, Contingency, & Choose-Your-Own-Adventure

Rewatching the original Cosmos series over the summer, this quote resonated with me: “Biology is more like history than it is like physics: you have to know the past to understand the present. There’s no predictive theory of biology just as there’s no predictive theory of history. The reason is the...