death of the author
review link The subject of todays blog is… death of the author! Everybody’s favorite buzz-subject! When it comes to the question of originality and inspiration in art, it’s interesting to talk about my own work here, considering secret game club is deliberately made to be derivative, as it centers around video games, even when it comes to the concept I was pretty clear with my inspirations in other games related media like magazines and websites, in particular stuff like Hardcore Gaming 101, who do all these writeups on just about every game you can imagine, and the writings of games writer Tim Rogers (the whole pretentious pontificating is pretty much a dead giveaway) whose Action Button site and channel were, itself, deliberately made as an homage to older game magazines, his YouTube series has made fake magazine art for specific episodes. Style wise I’m largely influenced by [adult swim], the late-night style with the monochromatic style is a pretty adult swim influenced. The a...