Author: Casey Douglass
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On American Truck Simulator & Death. Who Wants to Live Forever?
Welcome to another instalment of Connection Lost. It’s a series that uses games as some kind of digital mirror, using them to shine a light on the feelings about death that many of us keep squeezed down tight in the pickle jar of our subconscious. Who Wants to Live Forever? looks at games in which…
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Connection Lost: Play It One More Time
Connection Lost is a collection of pieces that uses games to examine attitudes towards death in the non-gaming world. In this edition we will look at games that use time-bending mechanics to bring about feelings of connection and loss. This emotional bridge is so often the difference between an average game and a great one.…
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Connection Lost: You Can’t Take It With You
Hello and welcome to article two in the Connection Lost series: You Can’t Take It With You. If you didn’t read the first one, you’d probably be better having a browse of that first, as it will explain a lot about what I am doing. You can find that post at this link. Basically, I’m…
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Connection Lost: Major Carnage
Death is something that we all have to deal with at some point in our lives, whether by losing loved ones, pets, or even witnessing something horrific like an accident or an act of violence. We will also end up meeting the Reaper ourselves one day, unless we happen to be the first immortal ever…
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Life Goals and Dead by Daylight
The wooden-pallet crashes down, stunning my Killer character and giving the Survivors a chance to scatter like scuttling spiders. I mutter and swear as I destroy the barrier, before setting off in hot pursuit of a straggler. He dodges and weaves incredibly well, managing to lose me in a tangle of hay bales and dilapidated…
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Trucking Along With Depression
The concept of space is an important one. Whether physical or mental, without space around the things that we perceive, think or feel, we lose sight of the complete picture. The glass that is always proverbially half-full or half-empty is actually always full; the air sitting in the water-free part is often overlooked. When someone…