Book Club: Final Fantasy VI, SIDE QUEST
Ben and Shana discuss their favorite Ends of the World, the world of balance(d games), the image of the Last Man on Earth and other video game apocalypses.
Listen Now · Download · 4 · Show Notes »
Video Games on Overthinking It
Book Club: Final Fantasy VI, Week 4
The Final Fantasy VI book club continues into week 4, from the nobility of General Leo to the madness of Kefka, from the isolation of Thamasa to the overreach of Vector, and from the magitek research facility to the end of the world.
Listen Now · Download · 3 · Show Notes »
Book Club: Final Fantasy VI, Week 3
The Final Fantasy VI book club continues with Week 3! Join us for a discussion of the Opera, Ultros and the tension between narrative and gameplay.
Listen Now · Download · 3 · Show Notes »
Book Club: Final Fantasy VI, Week 1
Join us for a discussion of musical rewards, Six-Sigma Optimized Character Builds, and the bourgeois.
Listen Now · Download · 0 · Show Notes »
Book Club: Final Fantasy VI, Introduction
Overthinking It’s Book Club kicks off with an introduction to FINAL FANTASY VI, video games as art, artisanal hand-crafted emulators and video game auteurs.
A Link Across Time: The Power of Childhood in The Legend of Zelda
What is “The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds” trying to tell us about nostalgia? And what does it have to do with turning into a painting?
1 · Read More »
Tiny Death Star and Operant Conditioning
How the Star Wars mobile game conditions you to spend money.
8 · Read More »
Overthinking It Popfixers, Episode 4, “It’s a Me, Mario!”
The panel considers Koopa kidnappings, union insurance and the virtue and vice of one-man armies in this all-new, all-Mario episode.
9 · Read More »
Keys to Your Brains: Plants vs. Zombies vs. Operant Conditioning
Plants vs. Zombies 2, and the psychology of “grinding” in casual video games.
6 · Read More »
When Games Pretend to Be Games They Aren’t
Candy Crush pretends to be a game of skill to trick you into spending money. But can a game pretend to be something it’s not for valid artistic reasons?