The Gauntlet Podcast

Episode 94 - Death, Grief, and Gaming


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Kate & Jason are joined by Andrew Medeiros to talk about death and grief in gaming.

Giving Me Bleed The Woodlands (00:58) The Watch (05:22) Monsterhearts 2 (09:14)

Topic Discussion Overview (12:09) Character death (13:20) Textual support for meaningful character death (18:54) Death as a theme in games (23:55) Setting expectations (27:49) Building up to character death (29:12) The influence of Western culture (33:39) Character suicide (36:14) Grief (40:21) Facilitating grief (46:28) Games that do death & grief well (55:04)

Giving Me Life The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (01:02:15) Imperial Assault (01:04:55) Be Here Now (01:06:05)

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