Nicholas Andriani

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A Journey Through 2023: Stories, Games, and Adventures

Jan 12, 2024

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Nicholas Andriani

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1. 📚 Excited to kick off the new year with my #graduatestudies in Narrative Design and Game Studies at the University of Missouri! 🎮🎓 #BackToSchool 2. 🎮🖥️ Launched Studio Zuhno, an interactive media developer! Follow our journey at Ludonarrative Chronicles. 📝✨ #GameDev #InteractiveMedia 3. 🍿 Popcorn Jr. game update: Narrative design is underway, and we’re…
Persona 5 and Cognitive Estrangement – a Detached Enchantment

Jan 4, 2023

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Nicholas Andriani

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Persona 5 is a role-playing video game developed by Atlus that was released in 2016. The game follows a group of high school students who are struggling with modern issues such as social oppression and the pressure to conform to societal norms. They discover that they have the ability to enter a mysterious realm known…
Scribes and Sake: Kasa-Jizo (かなじぞ)

Aug 3, 2021

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Nicholas Andriani

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Reading fairytales within the origin language. Contextual agreements between time and place, emotions and aesthetics. We might localize our hearts out but truth be told we humans are too complex to translate. #japanese #japaneselanguage #folklore #fable
The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States

Feb 1, 2021

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Nicholas Andriani

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Oh, Murakami, you sly fox, you mercurial and fluid, thread a web between East and west that we at once desperately need and can’t quite comprehend. And yet we return, thirsty and increasingly drunk of the elixir that is the product of your craft.
Fast Times at Ilium: The Glorious Lives & Deaths Homer’s Iliad

Oct 29, 2020

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Nicholas Andriani

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Keeping with the dualistic nature of Epic literature to be a hero requires great tragedy. One must all at once bring and preserve life while taking it. Within this text, war is clearly demarcated as a symbol of achieving glory.
Naomi Shihab Nye on Kindness and Sorrow

Dec 21, 2018

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Nicholas Andriani

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Naomi Shihab Nye on Kindness and the Art of Living a Compassionate Life