Thursday 8 November, 2018

During this session, I did take a look at the Steam review for the Mortician's Tale and despite the fact that the game takes about an hour long to complete, there are some repetitive comments about the game. For example, lot of the comments would state the interesting take on the concept of death and the idea of playing as a profession that we do not think about in a day to day basis.

The theme of the game providing insight to a morbid topic and profession that is usually avoided or just generally not talked about much is an interesting place to potentially dive deeper into. Some questions I thought of while reading this were: Is the game itself being ethical by shining light on this issue? Should more game developers be providing insight on less known professions and less talked about occurrences like the post death process?