We need to talk about how cool Shakespeare was.
Genre Police: A Different Kind Of Fantasy
Here’s a few games you might want to try in order to flex your romance muscles…
Genre Police: Drugs & Dystopias
Teen tales evolved from The Outsiders, through X-Men and Sweet Valley High to The Hunger Games becoming very different to its origins through several decades. In that time, its become one of the most beloved and (simultaneously) hated genres of the last decade.
Genre Police: The Kids Are All Right
The ‘Kids On Bikes’ genre has really taken off recently.
Genre Police: Power Word: R.K.O
Before we begin, do me a favour: name a medium that has its own genre conventions and mythology. It also has magic items everyone wants, currently possessed by violent giants and evil vegan druids. It has undead wizards, weird cult leaders, demon channellers that are characters, played by people, where the story is ongoing and […]
Genre Police: Literary Genie-Us
The original One Thousand And One Nights shows a great number of literary tropes that we use and understand as part of today’s literary structures and you can see at least parallels in some pillars of western literature, like The Canterbury Tales.
Genre Police: How Grim To Grimm?
It can feel at once mischievous and a throwback to what is viewed as the ‘original stories’. But do we lose anything when we veer away from the recognised trope set?
Genre Police: Nowt As Strange As Folk
Let’s talk about what we’re actually doing when we play a roleplaying game for a minute.
Genre Police: I Believe In Father Christmas
No one knows when it began, but each year, a battle is joined over an ancient question, one that can never be answered. Scholars lock into debate over seasonal food, decrying or supporting. Others cower behind the tree and whisper in confusion. We as a culture need an answer – Is Die Hard a Christmas […]
Genre Police: Actual Police
So it’s taken us a year to get to it, but genre police is going to finally look at the genre that inspired its name. The Police procedural is perhaps the most popular television genre of the last thirty years, without thinking I could list upwards of twenty shows that fit the pattern. And yet, […]
