PAX Australia: The History of Losing

I presented “Losing“ at PAX Australia 2014. This is an excerpt from that lecture covering, essentially, single player videogames. From Super Meat Boy to Silver Surfer to The Stanley Parable to Gone Home, I consider Narratives of Victory, and Narratives of Failure. There are two additional sections after this: multiplayer competitive games (orthogames) and Role Playing Games. Losing Saturday 2:00pm Fruitbat Theatre Winning is good, and losing is bad. We strive to win, and this is the basis for most of t