Sources and Significance
Discourses
Critical Analysis A
The Comforting Fiction of the Digital Archive There’s a quiet confidence that shapes how we move t...
Akshay Dilip Kumar
Dec 31, 2025
5 min read
Procedural Generation as Authorial Abdication: Who Writes the Story When Algorithms Build the World?
I’ve spent years as an artist navigating the tension between authorial control and player...
Akshay Dilip Kumar
Dec 9, 2025
11 min read
Virtual Reality’s Evolution: From Passive Immersion to Interactive XR.
When Morton Heilig unveiled the Sensorama in 1962, he imagined a multisensory cinema that...
Akshay Dilip Kumar
Dec 9, 2025
6 min read
Eyes as Vessels of Affect in Video Game Character Design: A deep Dive Trough Affect theory, Narrative Power and the Male Gaze.
Video game characters live or die by their eyes. This is not hyperbole but a material reality...
Akshay Dilip Kumar
Dec 9, 2025
13 min read
The Male and Female Gaze in Video Games: My reflections
When I first encountered Laura Mulvey’s idea of the male gaze, it struck me as a powerful...
Akshay Dilip Kumar
Dec 9, 2025
5 min read