by Black Shell Media | May 21, 2015 | Blog
Each camera perspective can be used and warped in different ways to accomplish different goals. In genre terms, survival horror has the widest and most unique uses of camera perspectives. There are horror games in first-person, third-person, second-person, and even 2D...
by Black Shell Media | May 19, 2015 | Blog
Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso; these old dead guys have lead me to a better understanding of video games. These famous artists have reached me from beyond the grave and taught me their secrets through their work. While painters have studied these great men for a very long...
by Black Shell Media | May 17, 2015 | Blog
Okay, so maybe it’s not really that simple. But from Castaway, to Lost, to Lord of the Flies, wilderness survival has remained a popular and ever-present theme in film, television, and literature. The scenario in which one must survive some sort of foreign...
by Black Shell Media | May 15, 2015 | Blog
In almost every society, coming of age is important. The way it’s acknowledged may change based on culture, of course; sending a kid out to kill a jaguar with his bare hands might be equivalent to turning 21 and getting smashed while urinating on public property....
by Black Shell Media | May 13, 2015 | Blog
For an industry characterized by an Italian plumber that stomps on the heads of cartoonish representations of Kappa, we’re pretty repetitive. Not only in the sense of the shovelware kids games and brown first-person shooters that proliferate like cockroaches; any...