Category Archives: Crime and Punishment
Is sleep conducive to death? Or more importantly, is Sleep is Death conducive to compelling storytelling?
There has been much writing about SiD since the early previews in March, from Anthony Burch on Destructoid, to a piece I wrote, basically gushing at how excited I was about the whole thing. But following its release on the 9th April (if you pre-ordered it that is), many have endeavoured to summarise the experience [...]
Crime, Sleep, Punishment, Death: Naming the Beast
Naming a beast is a necessary task, something meaningful, memorable and apt is a good place to start. You’ll notice that the title I’ve decided to use for my adaptation of Crime and Punishment for Sleep is Death is a simple combination of the two titles in a way which suggests the nature of the [...]
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Creating Rasklonikov
I have tried to create the protagonist of the story adhering to the description as written in Dostoevsky’s novel as taken from The Literature Network, (http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/crimeandpunishment/) I’m not exactly sure which translation is being used here, however it is a very useful resource because its searchable and also saves me transcribing the sections of interest. [...]
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Playing Monomania: A protagonist in the throes of madness