The Writer's Block

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John Stevenson
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  • The Stories that Never Were: Battleship

    So last year I wrote a brief piece on a pair of video games that I thought could have been terrific, rather than merely adequate, if they’d only focused more on their stories. Well I’ve decided to turn that little idea into a full on series of articles here on the Writer’s Block. There are… Read more

  • Tell me a Tale of the Walking Dead

    Tell me a Tale of the Walking Dead

    So I’ve given you a comparison of the key differences between The Walking Dead Telltale Adventure game and The Walking Dead AMC TV Series. Now it’s time to take the game and examine it under the fine microscope of objectivity. Okay not really, no one can really objectively examine something as subjective as an entertainment and artistic… Read more

  • The Walking Dead vs The Walking Dead

    So I just finished Telltale’s sequence of adventure games based on The Walking Dead. I’m still writing a breakdown of the game’s narrative and characters, but I wanted to do a comparison of the show and the video game. And why one is a triumph of storytelling and the other is a dismal failure. Spoiler… Read more

  • The Thing Under the Carpet

    Today I was ripping up the carpet in my house. It was a filthy mess that could scarcely be called a carpet anymore. How it got into that state isn’t important. What is in important is that you remember, I’m a writer. These are the hands of a poet. An artiste, if you will. The… Read more

  • Asura’s Wrath Continued

    I’ve already done a review of Asura’s Wrath, and it was near 2500 words long, and really I only scratched the surface of the game. There’s so much going on that I couldn’t possibly cover it all in the initial review. I really wanted to get into the subtle nuances that occurred throughout the game,… Read more

  • The Postravaganza

    That’s a thing right? Just add extravaganza to the end of a word? Well I don’t care, I’m using it anyway. So like most people, I broke my resolution barely a week after I made it. I promised to start blogging twice and a week, and it’s been nearly three since my resolution post! Instead… Read more