Chris Schilling

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Editorial director, @lostincult. Author, IMMORTALITY: Design Works; Outer Wilds: Design Works. "Industry elder." chris(at)lostincult(dot)co(dot)uk. He/him.

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The most influential video game of all time

1 month ago | bafta.org | Chris Schilling

Words by Chris Schilling. Video games’ influence on popular culture has never been more prevalent. Their effect is visible and audible in today’s music, across the world of TV and cinema, and on the catwalk. Even your favourite language-learning and fitness apps feature progression systems and rewards popularised by games. To reflect the medium’s universal impact, ahead of the 21st BAFTA Games Awards, we asked the public a provocative question : what is the most influential video game of all time?
Validation of the Clavien-Dindo classification and Comprehensive Complication Index as measures of morbidity following total hip and knee arthroplasty

Dec 31, 2024 | boneandjoint.org.uk | Siddharth Rele |Cade Shadbolt |Chris Schilling |Sharmala Thuraisingam

Rele S, Shadbolt C, Schilling C, et al. Validation of the Clavien-Dindo classification and Comprehensive Complication Index as measures of morbidity following total hip and knee arthroplasty. Bone Joint J. 2025;107-B(1):81-88. doi:10.1302/0301-620X.107B1.BJJ-2023-1400.R2 Rele, Siddharth, et al. “Validation of the Clavien-Dindo classification and Comprehensive Complication Index as measures of morbidity following total hip and knee arthroplasty.” The Bone & Joint Journal, vol. 107-B, no. 1, 2025, pp.
Lost In Cult

Sep 24, 2024 | lostincult.co.uk | Chris Schilling

Goal: £30,000 So Far: £405,000 Return to the captivating, time-looping solar system of Mobius Digital’s multi-award-winning sci-fi adventure in OUTER WILDS: DESIGN WORKS. Featuring exclusive interviews with the game’s creators and community, never-before-seen art and much more besides, this is the ultimate celebration of one of the most influential video games of the last decade.
"It's the perfect amount of creative challenge": How we made the Hades II artwork

Jul 20, 2024 | creativebloq.com | Chris Schilling

After the critics got their mitts on Supergiant Games’ first Hades entry, it was rightly acclaimed as a masterpiece, and not just for its stellar gameplay. The title took the studio’s signature art style and infused it into the tales of ancient Greek mythology, with the result an eyeball-satisfyingly engrossing way to tell its narrative. This May saw the early access release of its sequel, Hades II.
IMMORTALITY Design Works - Lost In Cult

Jan 29, 2024 | lostincult.co.uk | Chris Schilling

IMMORTALITY:Return to the sprawling mystery of Half Mermaid’s BAFTA Award-winning Immortality in Immortality: Design Works. Featuring the game’s unabridged script alongside behind-the-scenes essays and interviews written by EDGE Magazine’s Chris Schilling, lose yourself in this definitive exploration of Marissa Marcel’s genre-defining story. From narrative and theme to its production history and influence, discover the nuance of Immortality across nearly 600 pages.
How Hi-Fi Rush came together to deliver "kinectic action comedy" inspired by Edgar Wright and Shaun of the Dead

Jan 5, 2024 | yahoo.com | Chris Schilling

The rhythms of the triple-A videogame hype cycle are now so firmly established that anything that disrupts them is bound to stand out. But even if not for the remarkable nature of its arrival - revealed and launched at January 2023's Xbox Developer Direct - Hi-Fi Rush would surely have made a splash.
Holiday Long Read: Edge magazine in conversation with Dreams developer Media Molecule

Dec 28, 2023 | yahoo.com | Chris Schilling

For the better part of two decades, Media Molecule has been in the business of breaking down creative boundaries: not just by placing game development tools in the hands of its audience, but by finding ways to actively encourage players to become makers. As such, it's hard not to view the opening of Tren – the studio's last major release for Dreams, as it turns its attention to a new project – in metaphorical terms.
How a parchment of ideas evolved into the RPG work of art that is Pentiment

Dec 27, 2023 | gamesradar.com | Chris Schilling

Your first act in Pentiment is a simple one, yet loaded with layers of deeper meaning. The game begins with the camera zooming in on a thick book, propped up against a large wooden board. Suddenly, it flips open to reveal a page of Latin text – at which point a smooth, oval-shaped stone appears, inviting you to press it down against the page to erase the printed words and images. Even without any additional context, the process feels taboo – effectively charging you with rewriting history.
Spotlight feature: 20 years of BAFTA Games

Dec 12, 2023 | bafta.org | Chris Schilling

The BAFTA Games Awards celebrates its 20th anniversary next year. Ahead of the first ever public announcement of the awards longlist on Thursday, we spoke to three members – Tara Saunders, Charu Desodt and Sam Hughes – about BAFTA’s journey through games, how its initiatives benefit the development community, and how games have evolved as a narrative medium to tell meaningful stories in unique ways.
How an indie studio fulfilled its plan to deliver a TV-quality sci-fi thriller

Jul 29, 2023 | msn.com | Chris Schilling

Maintenance engineer Jack Leary is working the graveyard shift at Prospect One, a remote mining outpost on Mars, when he receives a red alert from the nearby station of Fort Solis. Suspicious that it was manually activated rather than automated, he calls in to request a response; when that isn't forthcoming, he tells colleague Jessica Appleton that he's heading over to investigate.