Solidarity, Strategy, and Well-Placed Paperwork - A Game Analysis of Star Wars: Zero Company

Good evening, victim - err - listeners. Today we journey to the plague-ridden Vale Sangora, where vampires have solved several medieval problems through the universally respected method of making them considerably worse.

This is a Lumic Analysis of “The Blood of Dawnwalker” (by developer Rebel Wolves, 2026).

For those of you who are not familiar with the term, “Lumic” is a portmanteau combining “ludic,” which is the root of ludology, or the study of games and gameplay, while “-mic” represents multimodal ideological critique, a shortening of “multimodal critical discourse analysis” - I recognized long ago that games and gameplay are a kind of discourse and this is a scholarly analysis of the discourses in “The Blood of Dawnwalker.”

A LUMIC Analysis of “Outer Wilds” (Mobius Digital, 2020) as a system of ludic discourse

A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Baldur's Gate 3 by Carpe Modum.