L.B. Jeffries

L.B. Jeffries is the pseudonym of Kirk Battle. After retiring from video game writing in 2010 he began writing fiction. He is currently working on historical fiction set in the American South. You can find a free podcast reading of his latest work Cthulhu in the Deep South. His other work is available on Amazon.

Sierra vs. Lucasarts

Perfecting Loss in ‘N+’

Video Game Parodies

Mastering the Basics in Butcher Bay

Awareness, Social Change, and ‘Critical Play’

Awareness, Social Change, and ‘Critical Play’

In Critical Play, games scholar Mary Flanagan details the long history of games engaging with larger cultural issues and subverting exclusion

‘LOST’ and Video Games

The Multiple Choice Game

Morality in Mystery Dungeon: ‘Shiren the Wanderer’

A Good A.I. Trick

Transparent Difficulty in ‘Order of Ecclesia’

Johan Huizinga’s ‘Homo Ludens’

Sensing the Sublime in Lumines