A THOUSAND PAGE VIEWS HELLO HOW DID YOU GET HERE
I was using my profile as a shortcut to perusing new Windows 7 themes and blazam, 1,000 on the dot. Maybe they're all from this very process, who knows, but since we both know it's caused by adoring followers that later wonder why the hell they're on my page that contains nothing, I'll say thanks anyway.
Speaking of. Do I have to go and create some shit for myself since I discovered this 1,000th phenonmeon? Screw it, it looks way cooler spelled that way. All I can think of is a sandwich and that doesn't seem very dA-journal-appropriate much less later posting pictures of it in celebration after the fact. I don't hate the raw idea of making a sandwich for myself, though, I do love them. Dearly.
Well this has been a shit load of nothing so far lol I swear I had a point to this. Futurama something something? Super excited? In the pants? All of that and more. Only an hour and a half to go!
Oh right, my grand scheme was to start this out about 1,000 views and then cleverly segue into apologizing to all my dA buddies for being a bit of a ghost these past few months save a few comments here and there. I get into these funks and then just distract myself from doing one thing entirely by doing a few other completely unnecessary, unimportant things instead so as not to feel bad about the initial neglect. It's bad. lol Anyhow, I have . . . 701 notices/watch messages right now that I'll need to start sifting through and commenting on while people wonder why the fuck someone is poking around in their 2-month old sketch of a chocobo that has fallen and can't get up, but I'm looking forward to all that awkwardness and more. Again, apologies to all, I've missed you and hope to have spammy, all-caps back-and-forths on your pages again real sooon.
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JOURNEY - holy shit ass this game
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Perusing dA and notice 
's new submission, a Journey pendant
that reminded me of wanting to talk about the game because of a really great moment yesterday. It started last night when I was catching up on old episodes of Extra Credits, a weekly web-series that takes a subject of games or aspect of game design and expands upon or explains how games use it.
I'm going through and without even noticing the title, jump to the next video because it has the little sand cloaky guy from Journey on it who is adorable. The next 10 minutes is the most awesome fucking breakdown of how "Journey" is actually an analogue to "The Hero's Journey". They cite the events you go through in the game, comparing them to the stages of the Hero's Journey, offering explanations as to how they match up where in some cases there are potentially multiple parts where a stage occurs. I'd go through what that is but the video does it well already. This was particularly awesome because I'd just read about and written a paper on similarity across myths which Joseph Campbell refers to as monomyth in "The Hero's Journey".
The incredible thing about this is that it's never spelled out in the game and is a completely action-oriented experience because as far as I can tell the game has no text or dialogue at all. I get that probably comes off as "deep" but the style and execution just looks so fucking excellent that it changes from being a gimmick to a self-imposed limitation to change how the story is conveyed.
At least I thought this was never spelled out until reading the follow-up forum thread to the EC videos where someone noticed the soundtrack confirms the entire idea. Now this gets really cool: itunes.apple.com/us/album/jour…
The tracks are all named and follow the steps listed in The Hero's Journey. Have you shit your pants yet? Well hold off on congratulating yourself because it doesn't stop there. The last little secret was found when players noticed the lyrics of the song "I was born for this", a famous line from Joan of Arc (for this / to do this), were in a few different languages and decided to try and translate them. What they found really tops the entire game off as a very beautiful work with layers you'd never even know were there otherwise. The words are pulled from different pieces of literature and tell a story that I think will convey an incredible amount of meaning to any who have played through: Journey - I Was Born For This - I'd list the lyrics but they're in the video and the song is also beautiful and really worth listening to.
There are some significant spoilers with the initial videos, but I don't think it really hurts. I am fucking dying to play this game.
's new submission, a Journey pendant
that reminded me of wanting to talk about the game because of a really great moment yesterday. It started last night when I was catching up on old episodes of Extra Credits, a weekly web-series that takes a subject of games or aspect of game design and expands upon or explains how games use it.I'm going through and without even noticing the title, jump to the next video because it has the little sand cloaky guy from Journey on it who is adorable. The next 10 minutes is the most awesome fucking breakdown of how "Journey" is actually an analogue to "The Hero's Journey". They cite the events you go through in the game, comparing them to the stages of the Hero's Journey, offering explanations as to how they match up where in some cases there are potentially multiple parts where a stage occurs. I'd go through what that is but the video does it well already. This was particularly awesome because I'd just read about and written a paper on similarity across myths which Joseph Campbell refers to as monomyth in "The Hero's Journey".
The incredible thing about this is that it's never spelled out in the game and is a completely action-oriented experience because as far as I can tell the game has no text or dialogue at all. I get that probably comes off as "deep" but the style and execution just looks so fucking excellent that it changes from being a gimmick to a self-imposed limitation to change how the story is conveyed.
At least I thought this was never spelled out until reading the follow-up forum thread to the EC videos where someone noticed the soundtrack confirms the entire idea. Now this gets really cool: itunes.apple.com/us/album/jour…
The tracks are all named and follow the steps listed in The Hero's Journey. Have you shit your pants yet? Well hold off on congratulating yourself because it doesn't stop there. The last little secret was found when players noticed the lyrics of the song "I was born for this", a famous line from Joan of Arc (for this / to do this), were in a few different languages and decided to try and translate them. What they found really tops the entire game off as a very beautiful work with layers you'd never even know were there otherwise. The words are pulled from different pieces of literature and tell a story that I think will convey an incredible amount of meaning to any who have played through: Journey - I Was Born For This - I'd list the lyrics but they're in the video and the song is also beautiful and really worth listening to.
There are some significant spoilers with the initial videos, but I don't think it really hurts. I am fucking dying to play this game.
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