Boen Wang
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Pennsylvania, United States
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Past articles by Boen:
Unwinnable: Games About Anxiety
Winning isn’t the point of these games, as there’s no simple way to “win” against anxiety. → Read More
Live, Kill, Repeat: Morality and Quicksaves
If you can erase all your actions with the press of a button, why not experiment? → Read More
Difficulty As Tone in 'Hyper Light Drifter'
Hyper Light Drifter creates a certain tone -- melancholy resignation mixed with a feeling of just barely scraping by -- that wouldn’t be possible in an easier game. → Read More
Person to Person: Reading People Through Video Games
What if you could analyze a work and glean information about a flesh and blood person? What if you could know someone through a piece of art? → Read More
'Samorost 3' Is a Game About Observation and Interpretation
Despite occasional frustrations, Samorost 3 feels alive and wondrous and weird in a way that most games aren’t. → Read More
On the Fatal Inertia in 'ADR1FT'
After an intriguing opening, I found myself frustrated with how strong the concept of the game is compared to the game itself. → Read More
Stories We Tell
You know the story. You’ve lived the story, and you're destined to relive it again and again. → Read More
Learning to Breathe
It’s a strange and frustrating experience, trying to teach someone to play a game. You think about movements that have long become unconscious, a bit like trying to describe the exact mechanics of breathing. → Read More
Max and Me
I turned 18 in 2013, so did Life is Strange's Max Caulfield. → Read More
Alone Together: Companionship in Single-Player Games
Is it silly, maybe even unhealthy, to expect genuine connection from fictional, artificial characters? → Read More
In Motion: On the Emptiness of Progress
Nils Pihl calls it, Newtonian engagement, that is, when an engaged player will remain engaged until acted upon by an outside force. That's progress. → Read More
Lynd Ward Prize celebrates innovation in graphic novels
The annual Lynd Ward Prize honors the best graphic novel published in the U.S. and Canada. → Read More
Mom and Dad and Sister and Frère
COLUMN: One family’s response to the terror attacks in Paris. → Read More
Seeking privacy in the age of Internet totalitarianism
Is it possible to opt out and still function in modern society? → Read More