Author Archives: cole

Class question

Posted on April 19, 2011 by cole

The difference between expert and novice game players is the speed with which they grok a game. Or, experts have already groked a game where as a novice is still learning. Novice=n00b Expert=1337

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Personal Game Cannon

Posted on April 18, 2011 by cole

The goal of the video game committee in the New York Times article is to create a game cannon for America. The biggest challenge seems like it would be cultural rather then technical. As Hayley pointed out in her post … Continue reading →

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The Empirical Literature

Posted on April 6, 2011 by cole

The article by Simon Penny was just one side of the debate about video game violence that has been taking place in academic journals. Wikipedia has a short overview of the subject. That is only the tip of the iceberg … Continue reading →

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5 Distinguishing features of IF

Posted on March 24, 2011 by cole

Cole Terlesky and Alex Whittaker text based input/output you set at least half of the story narrative based (they are driven by stories) exploration (exploring either a physical space, or a narrative) rules (determines how text based input effects text … Continue reading →

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A spoiled gamer

Posted on March 22, 2011 by cole

I played all three games and had the strongest reaction to the game Bronze. Having read the spoiler section about shade I now realize I didn’t finish it. I had gotten stuck in shade and I wasn’t pulled in by … Continue reading →

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A lack of evolution in First Person Shooters?

Posted on March 11, 2011 by cole

At the beginning of the week we read Galloway’s chapter on the origin of the subject POV in film, and how games had their own divergent use of the subjective POV with the creation of First Person Shooters. There were … Continue reading →

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I feel…epic

Posted on March 2, 2011 by cole

I have never gotten sick of listening to the music from Halo. In class we talked mainly about the simple origins of music in video games. To me Halo (especially the halo 2 soundtrack) represent a mature expression of music … Continue reading →

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A breakdown of “Genre Trouble”

Posted on February 13, 2011 by cole

The “Genre Trouble” article by Espen Aarseth was packed with interesting ideas that had my mind firing off in different directions throughout the piece. Below are some of the big ideas of the article and the connections I made to … Continue reading →

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Seeker – Cole

Posted on February 3, 2011 by cole

Extra Credits Is a video series by a game critic that attempts to critically analyze the gaming industry. Some of the more relevant video topics include “Choices and Conflict”, “So you want to be a game designer?”, and “Choice and … Continue reading →

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