Episode 83: Ayu Koyama

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Kritiqal Care

KRITIQAL

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Conversations about games, community, and the reasons we play. Kritiqal Care is a monthly interview show highlighting the breadth of the games community. Nathalie is joined by tabletop writers, video game designers, pixel artists, streamers, YouTube critics, and others from all corners of the medium to explore games as personal, creative, and political. These are rough times, but games can help us feel less alone through it all.

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Episode 83: Ayu Koyama

Kritiqal Care

34 minutes 37 seconds

1 year ago

Episode 83: Ayu Koyama

Ayu Koyama (she/her), aka sweetfish, is an interactive fiction writer and designer whose work explores religion, history, and digital play. In this episode we chat about what drew her to interactive fiction as a form, how that intersects with her experimental web design projects, and the ways a distant relationship with Catholicism influences her games. In closing we invite you to read old books.

You can learn more about Ayu’s projects on her personal website and play her games on itch.

Ayu’s Cool Things to Share
- The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsman, 1955) book series

Things Discussed
- Night Confessionals (sweetfish, 2023)
- Eider Cake (sweetfish, 2024)
- Heretic Pride (Laika)
- Pentiment (Obsidian, 2022)
- Commonplace (Pitter-Patter, 2022)
- LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST (LITHOBREAKERS, 2024)
- The Neo-Interactives
- Weird Web October

Kritiqal Care is produced by me, Nathalie, with music by Desired. It's available on Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, and wherever else you get podcasts. If you enjoyed the show, consider leaving a review or rating, sharing it with a loved one, and supporting KRITIQAL on Ko-Fi.