Games like Dordogne, The Last of Us, and Gone Home have used mixed media to signify and explore family dynamics across different generations. It's something games are uniquely able to do, writes phoenixsimms.
, Un Je Ne Sais Quoi’s title known for its gorgeous watercolor-styled graphics, Mimi remembers when she first found and used her grandmother Nora’s scrapbook. Mimi’s bratty and restless 12-year old self did so while spending her summer vacation with Nora in 1980s rural France. She gets severely scolded for using it to sketch a picture of her estranged parents in pencil crayon on a page. But soon after Nora apologizes for the incident.
But the scrapbook is more than just a narrative device. Other than a series of somewhat finicky point-and-click actions to perform, the player’s central mechanic foris scrapbooking. You collect stickers for it by exploring environments, paste photos you’ve taken in it or even generate cringey poetry from one-word thoughts that occur to Mimi throughout the memories she’s making and reliving.
Technology can keep us estranged from one another at times but it also helps us stay connected more so than in the past, when there were less immediate means of communication across distances. And when it comes to videogames, which have powerful potential for expression, such technology also helps us portray family dynamics in a nuanced way.
We’re all quite aware at this point in game development history that games are media uniquely equipped to explore various systems of interaction. Games, as Game Developer blogger Arne Neumann notes, are an inherently mimetic medium that began by digitizing pre-existingsuch as tennis or tabletop roleplaying games.
that extend the main narrative of its post-apocalyptic world. In the case of this game series, popular multimedia is a signifier of a shared past between generations. Whether it’s about sharing memories and regrets about lost loved ones or bonding over music, superhero culture, or cheesy action movies,leans into how our media can often function as a time capsule and a facilitator for our relationships.
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