Monthly Archives: April 2011
More Jason Nelson hipsterdom
Jason Nelson being hipster with poetry. Pretentious as always… http://www.secrettechnology.com/poem_cube/poem_cube.html
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Portal 2 Alternate Reality Game
This post is not for any grade, just something I felt was interesting. There is an ARG for Portal 2. There is a Steam Topic and a wiki discussing the game. On April 1, 2011, Valve released the Potato Sack … Continue reading
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World of Warcraft funeral
First off language warning. If you get offended by words on a screen, you should not click this video, or be in college… I was unable to bring up this topic during class due to running out of time, but … Continue reading
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This Is How You Will Die
Jason Nelson’s anti-game “This is How You Will Die” fits best out of all his games into Galloway’s counter-game categories. First, Nelson foregrounds TIHYWD in that, while the player does not see any coding or visual programming, he does witness … Continue reading
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Galloway and Games
When I was reading Galloway’s chapter about games, I was wondering when he would bring in cinema. Shortly into the Chapter he compared what Jean-Luc Godard and the countercinema of the 1960s did to the new countergaming, which consists of … Continue reading
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“I Made This You Play This” = Work of Art
As I played through each game assigned for next week, I found myself the most interested in “I made this you play this. We are enemies.” At first glance, the game seemed like a complete joke; totally sloppy, loud and … Continue reading
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Evidence of Everything Exploding
I found Galloway’s article extremely interesting. I did not know that the genre of mod games was out there. I find it extremely interesting that people take aspects or codes of games and turn them into something completely different than … Continue reading
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Game, game, game, and again game
I played Game, Game, Game, and again Game and I thought about Galloway’s chapter about “countergaming”, and I started thinking about how the the six differences he listed apply to this game. Some of the things Galloway listed were very … Continue reading
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Countergaming without Modding
This latest chapter from Galloway described countergaming and its prevalence in mods throughout the span of blockbuster game titles. I would like to challenge the restriction of countergaming to just mods and offer the possibility of a form of countergaming being within … Continue reading
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Virtual Reality Combat Simulations as a Treatment for PTSD
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/05/18/dr-sally-satel-promotes-virtual-reality-war-games-as-a-treatment-for-ptsd/ We mentioned in class the use of video games and virtual reality to help war veterans with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I found this article online about it. Make sure to read some of the blog comments, I … Continue reading
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More details for the “Countergaming” Reading
We can think of countergames as anti-games, or games that are everything that games aren’t supposed to be. In his essay on “Countergaming,” Alexander Galloway outlines six differences between conventional videogames and countergames: Transparency versus foregrounding Gameplay versus aestheticism Representational … Continue reading
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Atari for the iPhone/iPad!
A friend of mine posted this link on Facebook tonight, and I was really excited to see it. The emulator is a free download and comes with Pong, and you can download additional games for 99 cents. Awesome! http://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/07/ataris-greatest-hits-for-iphone-ipad-and-icade/
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What video games are your kids playing?
This interesting article by PBS discusses how most parents have no idea what video games their kids are playing. It addresses Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, the boys at the center of the Columbine Massacre, and the games they played … Continue reading
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Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City
I found this game based on the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Note: it doesn’t work in Safari, so try Firefox if it isn’t working in Internet Explorer, either. In the game, you take on the role of a young girl traveling … Continue reading
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The Empirical Literature
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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