On Authorship in Games - Click Nothing - 5 views
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interacting with a work does not shape the work, it ‘only’ reveals it.
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Brett Boessen on 14 Jul 10Well put.
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Because a game is a complete formal system
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Is he implicitly arguing here that games with emergent elements -- especially MMO's and games with heavy player-vs-player interactions -- are not games, or is he arguing that they also represent "complete formal system(s)"? Or did he simply misspeak? Because I don't see emergence as falling within any kind of closed system.
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I take him to be talking about elements that belong to the game proper, not to things that might emerge within and through the game as a result of player interactions. So in-game actions are part of the game. Forums for player discussion, clans etc are not part of the game, at least not part of the authored game. But I agree, it's very ambiguous and should be debated.
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The rebuttal to this argument lies in a comparison to film or to music or to any other collaborative artistic creation.
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Woops -- I thought he was going to address my points above, but he went in a different direction here. (I'm enjoying the point-by-point-rebuttal structure of the post immensely, though. I'd love more of my students to write this way. :)
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I agree. The noise point is quite good. And careful comparisons with other media are useful.
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