Griffin H.

Diane, I'm holding in my hand a small box of chocolate bunnies.

Form over Function.

  It’s extremely jarring to see a chessboard that uses abstract symbology for its pieces rather than gendered/role based imagery. It’s a foreign thing, and as someone introduced to chess through its usual Western depiction I’d find it extremely difficult to play not having the rather opaque imagery typically depicted. Birth of the Chess Queen…

Pokemon, The Digital Artifact

Pokemon drawn in Woodblock style

“I finally filled my pokedex!” I remember telling my grandfather sometime in 1998. “What the hell is a pokedex?” he responded to my abject horror.

On Huizinga

Oh You, I thought while reading Huizinga’s Homo Ludens. You’re almost there. Almost.

Hello World

Now’s a time as good as any to introduce myself. I’m Griffin. Senior in Japanese and Japan Studies, amateur translator and competitive Super Smash Brothers Melee player, among other things. I have a long history with games. My mother and father played them, and I learned to play them through mimicry and late-night computer tinkering when…