This is a blog about games. I started it to chronicle my own development endeavors, as well as to try and encourage others to make games that interest them, and celebrate the work of my peers. It then immediately started to go downhill, and at this point I make horrible internet videos that will ultimately shame me when I run for office. It’s part masturbatory catharsis, part masturbatory analysis of the state of game design from high upon my Ivory Tower. So… I guess it’s all masturbatory, then.
If my insane rantings or horribly disfigured, snaggle toothed visage have harmed your psyche to the point where you wish to ask me to stop, you can contact me at cdfrankl (a with a circle around it) gmail.com.
Random links:
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/campster
Blip: http://blip.tv/errant-signal
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/campster
I also occasional do podcasts and longform Let’s Plays with the crew over on Twenty Sided, so there’s that.
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March 4, 2016 at 3:46 PM
I really like your channel. Love what you have to say. Part of me wants to hear what ya’d have to say over the stuff I’m working on but that’s irrelevant. Being realistic here. Not gonna happen.
One way or another, keep this up. It keeps the folk who really gotta be thinking about what matters thinking; realizing what we’re doing, and what we might be saying…. and adapting the message to the medium. It’s a lesson I needed to be reminded of. I think others do too – especially people who’s reach extend way beyond my own.
Kevin
August 18, 2016 at 4:14 PM
Hey,
Just here to let you know that your video about The Beginners Guide is really good.
I wanted to let you know sooner, but really life interrupted that plan. Point is, I do like your work and I (possibly) understand the trouble that you have by analysing a game which is about ‘reading to much into games’. I’m glad that you continued your show even after you did some soul searching.
My two cents, any person who takes much interest in following your channel will at some point also take the critic into account. A good audience knows it’s medium and understands that you to have a personal perspective, life and preferences.
Perhaps that’s a soothing element in the equation: Your personal reading of Quake (as demonstrated in the video) might not be accurate, but it is accurate through your lens, of which I as a spectator must be aware.
But before I digress, thanks for your videos.
Josh
May 2, 2017 at 12:13 PM
I really enjoy your content. I’ve been watching for years, but I’ve never expressed my appreciation for your work.
Thank you for everything that you do.
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June 10, 2017 at 4:46 AM
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Alan
August 16, 2017 at 2:30 AM
Hey ES/Campster/Whomever you identify as,
I mostly youtube for game critique and am about halfway through your material. I found out about it through the Writing on Games channel. I really like your work in general, but very rarely actually drops notes to individual content creators. What prompted me to do so this time was watching your coverage of the original Civilization game.
I’m a post-bac student of imperial history, political theory and state development and your criticism–that Civilization assumes the primacy and almost anachronistic assumption of the nation state in the development of human society. I liked your apologia for the “barbarians” too of course. I gather that you might have gotten some flak about details like that, but to me, that line of argument best exemplifies while you’re such a good reviewer. While Civilization is “just” a game, detail like that, when it’s a game purporting to idolize human development, is hugely important in pushing what the medium can do.
Just wanted to voice support for your rigor in integrating games analysis with the actual rest of reality. Good on you; more people need to do it. Looking forward to your next video.
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Carmel Henschel
November 20, 2017 at 10:26 PM
Your video on Beginner’s Guide inspired me to leave a review for it on it’s Steam page. Let me know what you think about it, and also let me know if my last point about Wreden leaving narrator Wreden’s email in the game as unsettling as I did!
“The Beginner’s Guide is probably my favorite video game of all time.
It has lasted with me since the moment I first played it and I think about it quite often, every time discovering a new facet of it’s commentaries. On the most basic level, it speaks about the general relationship between the art and the artist. After letting it settle a while longer, it can even become a gender critism or modern tale about society’s faulty nature of inquisitiveness. But here’s the catch: after taking hours, days, weeks, and even months trying to digest all these themes, analyze the purpose of the game, and guess Wreden’s intentions, you realize that perhaps you are the societal toxicity that the game implies, and THEN you have to analyze the evocative nature of THAT implication. This destructive cycle is quite powerful, and yet, I have not welcomed such a direct jab to my cognitive process as this, simply because it is so fascinating to watch myself as I break it all down.
Another note: one of the most interesting and overlooked parts of the game is right at the beginning, when narrator Wreden volunteers his email in the case that any player wants to share their own insights into Coda’s character with him. The more I think about it, the more I just HAVE to wonder why Wreden kept that part in the game. That, by extension, is possibly the most meta aspect of the game’s foundation, and yet all my thoughts on it are far too half-baked to volunteer to this review. Here I am, months after first playing it, still trying to unpack all that it has revealed to me. It is so amazing how one hour and thirty minutes of gameplay can do that to a person.
In case you couldn’t tell, I HIGHLY reccomend this game, for all that it is and is not.”
Best wishes,
Carmel Henschel
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