First Person Scholar Weekly: Like Clockwork, by Chris Lombardo

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

shovel knight screencap

This week, on First Person Scholar, Chris Lombardo discusses how Shovel Knight helped him understand and work through his depression.

"...I was placed inside a tower with no way back, no avenue to return to the place I was before. The only choice was to climb—to make my way through a constantly moving machine that did not care about me or my objectives, that ran in a fashion so predictable that its function became inscrutable. I was tasked, as I am in all platformers, with traversing and mastering a space.”

To read this essay, and other work by FPS, visit https://www.firstpersonscholar.com/like-clockwork/.