Critical Kate Willaert

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Critical Kate Willaert's research, artwork, and videos about video game history, logos, comics, and forgotten pop-culture stories.

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What goes into designing a video game logo? To get the story behind the creation of the logo for... #GameDesign #RetroGaming #LogoDesign
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Aug 1, 2026
Super Metroid's Influence On Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night #Gaming #RetroGaming #GameHistory
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Dec 26, 2025
Dracula Ponders, "What Is A Metroidvania?" #Gaming #IndieGame #VideoGameHistory
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Dec 23, 2025
Xcavator 2025 Never imagined I'd have a chance to design a logo for an actual NES game, but here we... #VideoGames #RetroGaming #GameDev
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Dec 12, 2025
A photo recently surface of Mister Rogers looking just like the Sickos meme, so of course I had to... #PopCulture #Memes #History
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Jul 31, 2025
If Ms. Pac-Man is a separate character from Pac-Man simply due to the honorific, is Mr. Pac-Man also... #Gaming #RetroGames #PopCulture
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Mar 16, 2025
Who's that firing shots that freeze A space warrior with an ice beam Tubes and brains and laser... #Gaming #RetroGaming #Art
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Feb 24, 2025
Are you me? What is happening? #History #Art #Gaming
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Dec 17, 2024
I felt the world doesn't have enough angry Christmas songs, so here's a loud blues I call "Got Laid... #Music #Christmas #Art
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Dec 13, 2024
Distracting myself tonight with some image cleanup. If there'd been a computer game industry in... #Gaming #History #PopCulture
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Nov 6, 2024
I've continued to quietly research the history of playable female protagonists for a series I call... #Gaming #History #PopCulture
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Sep 9, 2024
"How does a company go from making faulty baby strollers to creating cultural touchstones? It's the... #GamingHistory #Nintendo #PopCulture
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Aug 20, 2024
When EA launched it's first line of games in 1983, it ran a creator-focused ad entitled "Can A... #GamingHistory #RetroGaming #PopCulture
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Jul 11, 2024
How The X-Men Logo Got Fixed #Comics #LogoDesign #History
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Mar 20, 2024
What if EarthBound tribute, but it's The Wizard? #VideoGames #PopCulture #RetroGaming
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Mar 6, 2024
I just finished putting together a Spotify playlist featuring 3 hours of female-fronted hard rock... #Music #Rock #WomenInMusic
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Feb 7, 2024
I used to do topics like these as threads on social media, but with the current state of things I'm... #VideoGames #RetroGaming #PopCulture
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Jan 29, 2024
The colors of the heroes and villains in Tron was finalized a lot later in the process than you'd... #RetroGaming #SciFi #ArtHistory
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Jan 27, 2024
I like how I can say my Metroidvania video essay is going to have an auto-map and backtracking, and... #VideoGames #GameDev #IndieGames
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Dec 23, 2023
Looking forward to an epic year of cranking out mind blowing forgotten history that will be... #VideoGames #History #Comics
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Dec 23, 2023