Author: Nat Mesnard
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Role-Playing Queer Assemblages Amidst Capitalist Ruins
in EssaysNat Mesnard’s new game, Assemblage, allows players to build and role-play an imaginary multispecies universe. Even more interesting than the creatures themselves: the stunning meditation they elicit on extinction, grief, and collaborative, queer survival in the Anthropocene.
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Finding Connection and Resisting Extraction in Quarantine Gaming
in EssaysDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, video games offered Nat Mesnard and many others an escape from isolation. But the false promise of endless productivity in factory building games like Satisfactory ensnared them in a myth of capitalist “progress.”