Tag Archives: nicolau chaud

Player Guilt Revisited in ‘Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer’

03.31.11 – 11:08 pm

Reposted from PopMatters Moving Pixels. Note: Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer features disturbing themes including abduction, torture, mutilation and rape. Please read with caution. Today marks my third and final article on Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer, the controversial independent game released earlier this year by psychotherapist Nicolau Chaud. I tend not to spend more than a couple weeks [...]

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Beautiful Escape Dungeoneer: On Gender Ambiguity in a Binary Paradigm

03.31.11 – 11:02 pm

Reposted from PopMatters Moving Pixels. Note: Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer features disturbing themes including abduction, torture, mutilation and rape. Read with caution. Whatever else may be said about Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer, it’s an experience which sticks with you. I don’t ascribe this to good writing so much as a great hook with tolerable writing supporting it, [...]

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Considering the Politics of Sociopathy in Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer

03.31.11 – 11:01 pm

Reposted from PopMatters Moving Pixels. Note: This game deals with abduction, torture, mutilation and rape. Read with caution. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with the Saw franchise– that is, I love reading about it, but cannot for the life of me watch it. This is a bit of a persistent problem for [...]

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