Hello, and welcome to another episode of Talk This! It’s Dangerous to Podcast Alone. This week, we’re talking about family in video games. With as few dads as possible. Does other family even exist?
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The Topic
How are families often portrayed in games? What relationships come up often, and which ones don’t? What are some unique relationships (for games) that have been portrayed, and how does that inform the story and the characters? Why is it so hard to be a video game sibling?
The Actual Conversation
We talk about different common ways that family come up in games, and we talk about ways we’d like family to come up more. We also look into several specific examples as case studies for ways that unique family relationships can make a game stand out. Finally, we speculate on reasons for there not being many games about families.
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