About

Gamer, dreamer and an anthropology graduate. I am someone who not just loves gaming, but it’s one of the ways to get me to talk. It may seem like I finally lost my mind if I just kept rambling on without context, so I am trying to redirect my overflowing thoughts and meander them into pieces of writing.

Before pursuing an (or is it a?) honours degree in anthropology, I put my raw thoughts on some aspects of video games into blog posts. Anthropology gave me the tools to refine my writing and give it that X factor, like that tiny pinch of sugar in savory food which helps draw out the flavor. How did it do that?

For starters, here’s a bit about what anthropology is. It is a deeper understanding of various aspects of human life be it culture, tradition, religion or relations. I had this idea to explore gaming through the anthropological lens, and so I did in my honors year. My thesis pertained to how gamers feel a sense of escape, that feeling that they have transported to a different world while playing a game.  

After leaving my job in the food service industry, I wanted to reignite that spark that constantly hit my brain. This spark lights up every time I play a game, every time I experience something extraordinary about a game. And that spark is the spark to express my feelings of when I discover something truly fascinating about video games.

Now, through various pieces of writing, I don’t just want to review a specific game or genre and leave it there with all my thoughts and annoyances about the game, no. I want to try and connect them to deeper human emotions, conditions and behaviors to draw out comparisons of aspects of video games with their real-world counterparts (like a sense of home and where you belong to that exact feeling of belonging when you play a game) and understand the depth by which games integrate with our lives.