The Dangers of Dystopia
Dystopias have been around for a long time. The idea wasn’t even all the new when George Orwell first thought up Winston Smith and the rise and fall of his freedom in 1984. Or indeed when Aldous Huxley told the tale of the plight of John, the ‘savage’, in Brave New World. There is something very alluring about a dystopia, despite the very nature of the word. And we’re seeing a rise of them in games, from classics such as…