Category Archives: Links

  http://punya.educ.msu.edu/publications/aliengames-08.pdf   I read an article discussing gender issues in video games. They tested several hypotheses by forming groups of same gender children of different ages. Each group come up with a game design, and then they gave the … Continue reading →

I was looking into current developments with Interactive Fiction games and ran across this. The Annual Interactive Fiction game competition has been going on since 1995, and has some “now familiar people” who have entered and won. However, it looks … Continue reading →

Here is an interesting Video from the writer of shade.  He has crazy hair and check out his t-shirt! He is trying to get money to create an IF program for the Iphone which I thought was a very interesting … Continue reading →

As I was looking into other IF games to play, I came across this Lost Pig  game. The text reminds me of someone trying to speak like a character from sesame street. I thought Varicella gave me a headache, but I … Continue reading →

In class, Eliza was mentioned to be related to the Adventure IF game. The first thing I thought of was Peter Answers. It is a site that will answer any and all of your questions! But, instead of answering questions … Continue reading →

For my comment this week I wanted to pull some quotes from shade. While doing so I became curious as to what text I missed in the game from the play though. I found Reform which is a nifty program … Continue reading →

www.thisisnottom.com/ This is an interactive narrative featuring riddles and clues that the interactor has to solve in order to advance the story. It isn’t strictly an IF game or a regular video game because it uses images as clues, but … Continue reading →

What do you get when you mix the classic arcade game, Pacman, with the interactive fiction style of gaming? Pac-Txt! After a little bit of searching around, I found this text-based version of Pacman. I have played it for a little while … Continue reading →

http://xkcd.com/873/ I thought this was a funny perspective on first person shooter games.

FOX News called out Bulletstorm as the “Worst Video Game in the World” due to the extreme amount of violence. This game, Bulletstorm released on February 22, 2011, seems to be creating a lot of buzz in the first person … Continue reading →

I was curious as to how first person shooter games came about, and how they became so popular, so I found this website that has five parts about the time history of first person shooter games. It’s not incredibly detailed, but it does touch … Continue reading →

This video does the opposite of the video we watched in class. They put people into a side scrolling game via technology, and showed them from the side. It does not work nearly as well as it does in games.

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/710690/Why-Video-Game-Music-Deserves-A-Dedicated-Grammy-Award.html We discussed in class how the limitation of hardware dictated what sounds could be created, thus shaping the music.  In the case of the Atari 2600, some pitches were not even in tune.  In the modern era, technology has … Continue reading →

If you want to improve your typing skills this would be the way to do it. Typing of the Dead combines a zombie game with a typing tutor. Needless to say, this would have you typing like a champ in … Continue reading →