I play video games; I play Irish music; and I'm particularly interested in post-structuralist theory. My blog is about coming to terms with all those crazy pursuits, and being better at them by understanding them.
Does anyone else get the impression that there 's a bit of a contradiction in this talk, or at least in the way it 's represented It seems like the headline is ignore the debate, go out and create as a way to determine the truth of issues but then ...
I agree with Blow about the ambiguity thing - games do have very different strengths than books and film. Rather than beating the player over the head with a moral, they are strongest when they elicit introspection. r n r nAlthough it 's definitely true that games have different strengths ...
Hi Soren r n r nGood article. I think the content is more or less right you 're pointing out some pretty solid examples of games twisting around their stories in pretty dodgy ways, and ultimately, the question of how much choice a player really has the KotOR Malak conundrum ...
@Darren: r nThird paragraph, first sentence: Game narratives aren t built on stories. We all know narratives and stories are different things that was implicit in the argument. What Mark is saying is that the act of narration in a game is not motivated by the designer 's content, but ...
You might have missed one of the best ahead of its time examples in film - Alien, which as well know now is all about getting a faceful of alien wing-wong. It 's that sort of thing that makes me wonder if there are two different directions to consider: r ...
@ David - the negative effect/positive effect. r n r nI 'm not totally sure, but I think there 's some kind of logical fallacy in presuming that a relationship has to have multiple facets - that if games have a positive effect, they must have a negative effect. To ...
