Mediavania
Culture
BONUS QUEST: Spiritus Ex Machina
The fortunes, daemons, and egregores your fandom, your chatbot, and your Minecraft server are conjuring as we speak
Publication
Game Development
Issue 5.13: The SOURCErer's Apprentice
Game Development As the Most Complete Magic You Can Actually Perform [A Metamagical, Ludological, Theological, and Philosophical Analysis]
AI & Gaming
Slop, Please: Your Prose Is NOT in Order
OR: Against Pangram scans, virtue signaling, moral cosplaying, moral panicking, witch hunts, and Substack deputizing the witch hunters.
Culture
BONUS QUEST: The Gamer's Grimoire
A Tongue-in-Cheek Grimoire of Spells, Enchantments, and Potions for the Discerning Mystical Gamer
RPG
Issue 5.12: No Such Thing as a Free Lich
The Forbidden Arts in Video Games, and How They Let You Skip the Bill [An Archetypal, Metaspiritual, Theological, Philosophical, and Ludonarrative Analysis]
PC Gaming
Issue 5.11: Gods, Mods, and Sacred Fraud
Deities, Cults, Deicide, Apotheosis, and Playing God in Video Games [An Archetypal, Metaspiritual, Theological, Philosophical, and Ludonarrative Analysis]
Culture
BONUS QUEST: The Banned Bible Book That “They” Don’t Want You to Play
The Book of Enoch, Heaven’s System Failure, and the Video Games That Keep Repeating the Crime
Culture
Issue 5.10: Sympathy for the Diablo
Heaven, Hell, and the Open World in Between [An Archetypal, Metaspiritual, Theological, Historical, Literary, and Ludonarrative Analysis]
Culture
Theater Kid Surrealism, With the Parking Brake On
A Game & Word Review of "Kentucky Route Zero"
Culture
Issue 4.10 – 22 Minutes to Midnight
Cosmic Cycles and Archaeological Echoes in Outer Wilds [A Philosophical and Cosmological Analysis]
Culture
Issue 5.9: Wild Cards and Wilder Magic
The Mystical Powers of Balatro's Deck [A Historical, Philosophical, Metaspiritual, and Symbolic Analysis]
Culture
Issue 5.8: Elden Lore, Part 4
The Tarnished as Cosmic Fulcrum in Elden Ring [A Narrative, Historical, Philosophical, and Metaspiritual Analysis]
