Minor spoilers for those who want to experience the game in the dark for their first time: LIMBO is a dark and foreboding game, where you play as a small boy trying to save his sister. You run from the woods through an industrial nightmare, and get chased and killed by almost everything you see. There are traps set in…
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Settling the Score – what does the music in games do?
After viewing Dak0ta this week in class, I started thinking more about the role music plays in a narrative. Specifically, video games. The way the music from Dak0ta accompanied the fast paced scrolling of the text really emphasized the intensity of the story. Without the bouncy jazz music, my impression would have been a lot different. Watching it without music made…
Forces of Habit: Brain Worms in LIMBO
When I was a kid, I played the old Mario and Sonic platformers a lot. The old 2-D, sidescrolling ones, where plot wasn’t really an issue and you just sort of moved through levels because they were there. My friends and I even had a joke: “How do you beat a sidescroller?” “Hold right.” Ten years later, and bam: I’m…