The Walking Dead
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Extra Credits2 min
Welcome to Extra Credits EDU: A Resource for Educational Games on Steam!
Digital games serve as powerful pedagogical tools, yet educators and parents often struggle to identify high-quality titles suitable for classroom or home learning environments.
- A curated Steam resource has been established to categorize commercial off-the-shelf games based on their specific educational utility for classroom and home learning.
- The initiative bridges the gap between mainstream gaming and formal education by providing a vetted library of titles aligned with subjects like history, physics, and ethics.
- Practitioners utilize established commercial titles, such as the Civilization series for sociology and history, to foster critical thinking and subject mastery.
Extra CreditsMar 2015
Extra Credits5 min
Minority - Race and Relationships in The Walking Dead - Extra Credits
The Walking Dead serves as a benchmark for character development in video games, specifically regarding the portrayal of children and the nuanced integration of race.
- The Walking Dead successfully subverts the 'incompetent burden' trope by positioning the child character, Clementine, as a capable contributor to the player's survival.
- The game utilizes the horror genre's inherent sense of disempowerment to foster a genuine emotional and parental bond between the player and the child character.
- Racial identity is integrated as a holistic element of the setting rather than a reductive trope, particularly through the protagonist's African-American identity in the American South.
Extra CreditsMay 2013
Extra Credits5 min
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" - The True Cost of Survival in The Walking Dead - Extra Credits
The narrative core of Telltale’s The Walking Dead centers on the erosion of human morality within a post-apocalyptic landscape.
- Telltale’s The Walking Dead frames survival as a moral erosion, arguing that every death diminishes the collective humanity of the survivors.
- The game utilizes John Donne’s 17th-century meditation on interconnectedness to challenge the player's justification of pragmatic, dehumanizing choices.
- The relationship between the protagonist, Lee, and the child, Clementine, serves as the narrative’s moral anchor and a final attempt at redemption.
Extra CreditsApr 2013
Extra Credits5 min
Raising the Dead - How Telltale's Walking Dead Revived Adventure Games - Extra Credits
Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead serves as a primary case study for the revitalization of the adventure game genre, demonstrating that the format remains viable when developers prioritize narrative depth over outdated mechanical tropes.
- Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead successfully revitalized the adventure genre by prioritizing narrative depth and character development over outdated mechanical tropes.
- The game achieved its success by removing traditional barriers such as inventory management, pixel hunting, and convoluted puzzle-solving.
- By stripping away legacy mechanics, the developers modernized the adventure format to focus on the core appeal of immersive storytelling rather than mechanical constraints.
Extra CreditsApr 2013