mattbouchard, Author at Esoteric Gaming

Esoteric Gaming

Extraordinary Feats of Player Practice (in Pursuit of the Perfect Game)

Madden NFL 17, Connected Franchise mode screenshot showing a free agent selection/negotiation screen. While the developers have tried to jazz it up, the numbers are what the player is focussed on. This is a really snazzy spreadsheet

August 22, 2016 mattbouchard

Is a Game Esoteric in a Vacuum?

This writing begins the conversation of individual player movement toward connoisseurship, the personal meaning-making that leads to some very esoteric