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Mike Shepard

We Interrupt the New Year…

Happy 2023, Earth Citizens!

2 min readJan 4, 2023

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Mike Shepard

Time Loops and the Modern Sisyphus

When does the dream I get to live become a waking nightmare? Can it be both things?

16 min readDec 31, 2022

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Time Loops and the Modern Sisyphus

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Mike Shepard

Dead Space & Conflict — Part Three — Man and God

When we go looking for something mysterious, at the edge of our world, at the edge of our galaxy, what do we hope to find?

13 min readDec 24, 2022

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Dead Space & Conflict — Part Three — Man and God

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Mike Shepard

Dead Space & Conflict — Part Two — Self and Society

More than the Necromorphs, or EarthGov, or Unitology, the one thing that stands most strongly against Isaac is Isaac himself.

14 min readDec 17, 2022

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Dead Space & Conflict — Part Two — Self and Society

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Mike Shepard

Dead Space and Conflict — Part One — Nature and Technology

[Necromorphs] are not malicious, necessarily (no matter what vibes the shrieking and stabbing give off). They merely seek to exist.

13 min readDec 10, 2022

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Dead Space and Conflict — Part One — Nature and Technology

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Mike Shepard

Weird West and the Matryoshka

[Weird West] shifted three more times throughout the game, going deeper and deeper with each shift, like a funky little Matryoshka doll.

5 min readDec 3, 2022

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Weird West and the Matryoshka

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Mike Shepard

The Pathless — No One Way

The Pathless is as much a simple game as it is an experience; a challenge, as much as it is forgiving;…philosophical…as it is direct.

6 min readNov 26, 2022

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The Pathless — No One Way

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Mike Shepard

Anthologies and Epics

[F]or someone with an attention span as terrible as I have, eight smaller stories wrapped around a larger journey would have stood out…

7 min readNov 19, 2022

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Anthologies and Epics

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Mike Shepard

Perfect, Unexpected Translations

When developers put all of those familiar elements at the forefront, it helped to soften the transition of new mechanics and new gameplay.

8 min readNov 12, 2022

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Perfect, Unexpected Translations

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Mike Shepard

Retellings, Rereleases, and Old Stories Made

I felt like I was in the middle of something completely new, completely exciting, and truly unprecedented in video game storytelling so far.

9 min readNov 5, 2022

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Retellings, Rereleases, and Old Stories Made

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Mike Shepard

Mike Shepard

Just an amateur reminding himself of what he loves. Looking to write about all the things and experiences that make the end of the world worth living in.

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