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Brett Boessen

Playfic - 5 views

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game webapp inform interactivefiction text

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  • Brett Boessen on 16 Feb 12
     
    Someone took Inform 7 and made a webapp out of it!
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  • Ed Webb on 17 Feb 12
     
    Nice find!
  • Bryan Alexander on 17 Feb 12
     
    Yes indeed. I wonder if it's easier than author in than Inform.
  • Brett Boessen on 17 Feb 12
     
    Looks like its just a port of Inform to a web interface: same two-part backstage/frontstage formatting of the screen, same language engine running it. The difference, which is pretty awesome, seems to be that you can post your stories to their site so others can read and comment on them. (If I'm reading it correctly.)
Brett Boessen

Press Start to Continue: Toward a New Video Game Studies | HASTAC - 3 views

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games criticism hastac pedagogy theory forum

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  • being a gamer is less an inherent attribute—either you are or you aren’t—than it is a malleable description of practices that change throughout one’s lifetime, whether from “hardcore” to “casual,” single-player to “social,” or genre to genre
  • one could argue that part of the origin story of game studies was the struggle to establish the idea that games are not narratives--that they were a radically "new" textuality, but this just delayed the needful discussions of how games related to the inherited media ecology, how they used narrative, music, video, etc. to new effects
  • students tend not to be "well-played," on an analogy to "well-read," but knowledgeable in one or a few genres
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  • what about our students' physical abilities and skill sets? How does skill play into their experiences of games?
  • Can or should one philosophize about a medium one has not embraced to the point of design?  I vote:  no.
  • In an academic paper, I don't think that I would feel legitimate in citing something from a designer. It doesn't feel credible, even though the designer may be someone like Ron Gilbert
  • a senior-level seminar in “Digital Games and Culture”
  • Betty Hayes and I have been teaching an undergrad games studies course uniting new media reading/writing, academic readings across disciplines, and gameplay across genres for two years now
  • Brett Boessen on 08 Feb 12
     
    HASTAC has started a forum (a blog post with lots o' comments) to discuss video game studies.
Lisa Spiro

Globaloria.org - 2 views

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gaming

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  • Lisa Spiro on 01 Feb 12
     
    games made by students
Bryan Alexander

History 293 (Fall 2010): Avatar Project - Life from a Chilean and Argentine Perspective - 1 views

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role-playing education

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  • Bryan Alexander on 27 Jan 12
     
    Fascinating project to teach history through role-playing.
Bryan Alexander

Nordic LARP talks - 0 views

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gaming pedagogy art artgame LARP

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  • Bryan Alexander on 22 Jan 12
     
    Presentations by Scandinavian LARP creators.
Bryan Alexander

The Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry - 1 views

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games education ARG

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  • Bryan Alexander on 22 Jan 12
     
    "The Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry is a sort of narrative wunderkammer of an alternate reality game, a "cabinet of curiosities" combining a rich and oftentimes mysteriously fragmented historical tapestry with what Rob MacDougall has called "playful historical thinking.""
Beast Marketing

Diablo 3 to Become the Greatest MMORPG of 2012 - 0 views

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diablo diablo 3 blizzard entertainment blizzard rpg roleplaying role playing mmorpg games gaming video games diablo iii diablo ii

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  • Beast Marketing on 21 Jan 12
     
    Great game, A+
Brett Boessen

MIT TechTV - Part 2 of 3-Games As An Aesthetic Form - Frank Lantz (NYU Game Center) - 3 views

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games aesthetics mit nyu gamestudies art design

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  • Brett Boessen on 11 Jan 12
     
    Lantz, designer of Drop7 and head of the NYU Game Center, which has a new game design MFA, talks about aesthetic characteristics of games in this second part of his three-part talk at MIT (part 1 lays out his thinking about aesthetics and art in general, and part 3 is the QnA). I especially like his provocations that "all games are digital" and "games created computers", both of which have to do with his definition of games as "the aesthetics of interactive systems."
Brett Boessen

Terra Nova: Movies Stink - 15 views

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rant castranova systems design games narrative stories storytelling

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  • Brett Boessen on 06 Jan 12
     
    Castranova is not usually so passionate in his writing.  Very interesting perspective, though.
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  • Bryan Alexander on 06 Jan 12
     
    Interesting to see him split games from stories.
  • Bryan Alexander on 06 Jan 12
     
    I do chime in with his grumpiness about Hollywood, generally.
  • Brett Boessen on 07 Jan 12
     
    Honestly, I'm starting to feel similarly. Though I am finding many of the long-form serial narratives of TV pretty engaging. Still, I appreciate the value in *doing* over watching/consuming. And yet what he's saying is essentially a version of the old "film/tv makes you passive" argument, which I've always recoiled against. So I'm torn.
  • Bryan Alexander on 10 Jan 12
     
    I've been coming back to the tv=passive line, more and more each year. It's hard, because I know so many active fans engaged in all kinds of practices. But then I see the silent fans, the ones who just... soak. And I'm reminded of William Gibson's line about couch potatoes.
  • Brett Boessen on 11 Jan 12
     
    I don't know that one...do tell. :)
  • Bryan Alexander on 11 Jan 12
     
    I think this is textually correct, more or less: "a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
  • Bryan Alexander on 11 Jan 12
     
    Or, more succinctly: couch potatoes, like taters, are kept in the dark, buried under manure.
  • Brett Boessen on 12 Jan 12
     
    Wow. That's...very detailed. Doesn't leave a lot of room for empathy or understanding: pretty cut and dried. :)
  • Bryan Alexander on 12 Jan 12
     
    Jeremaiad. One I sympathize with. I need to spend time with you happy media studies folks and regain my old empathy.
  • Brett Boessen on 13 Jan 12
     
    THAT Camp - Games. Done and done. :)
  • Bryan Alexander on 13 Jan 12
     
    That's right - when do you arrive?
  • Brett Boessen on 13 Jan 12
     
    I'll actually be there Thursday evening, but I'm going to dinner with my parents and brother (who live in the area). I am staying through Monday morning, though. We should be able to find some time to catch it, I'd guess. What are your travel plans?
  • Bryan Alexander on 14 Jan 12
     
    Coming in Thursday, leaving Sunday @3.
  • Brett Boessen on 14 Jan 12
     
    Cool -- I'll see you Friday morning then. Let's try to grab a meal at some point. :)
Bryan Alexander

Simulating spooks? The CIA, simulations, and analyst recruitment - 0 views

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simulation liberalartscampus

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  • Bryan Alexander on 09 Jan 12
     
    Some liberal arts campuses involved, like SBC: "While many might associate the CIA with dissimulation as much as simulation, the Agency uses serious games and simulations in a number of ways. They are used, for example, in analyst training at CIA University (indeed, one well-known game designer teaches there).
Ed Webb

Home | Project Terra - 4 views

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games simulation politics international war

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  • Bryan Alexander on 21 Aug 11
     
    Very interesting. The website is thin on information, but the fora look pretty active. Who's behind this, just some hobbyists?
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  • Ed Webb on 21 Aug 11
     
    I think one person is building it, with lots of input from the community. The latter is large and active mainly due to migration from Cybernations and NationStates, so far as I can tell. Experienced players & groups from both games have plenty of suggestions...
  • Bryan Alexander on 22 Aug 11
     
    Cool. I'll check it out.
  • Ed Webb on 05 Jan 12
     
    This is now up for sale, after a hiatus of the site being down. Looks like he'll take $300 for it, or release it to public domain for the same amount.
Brett Boessen

People Who Were A Game Designer Include Harold Ramis - lunaran.com - 2 views

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games GroundhogDay

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  • Brett Boessen on 03 Jan 12
     
    I love this, though I'll admit I would *never* be that one guy who sticks with it.
Brett Boessen

Minicraft - 7 views

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minecraft games game online web

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  • Brett Boessen on 24 Dec 11
     
    Persson produced this in 48 hours for a game design competition.
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  • Bryan Alexander on 03 Jan 12
     
    Very clever. Now to figure out how to use the workbench...
  • Brett Boessen on 03 Jan 12
     
    Just walk up to it and press X -- it opens the window, which lists everything you can make and which/how much resources are needed to make the item. If you have gathered enough, it will list those you are able to make at the top of the list. It does not seem like you can pick up a workbench like you can in Minecraft, but maybe I'm missing something.
  • Bryan Alexander on 03 Jan 12
     
    I guess I need to gather more resources. ...or get back to work! Click to focus indeed.
Ed Webb

Oh No! Video Games!: Who's That Video Game?! » The Fascist Politics of the In... - 4 views

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video games games ideology politics

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  • Ed Webb on 02 Jan 12
     
    Objectification of the other is not exclusive to fascism, by any means. Many other 'isms' do it - colonialism being a fine exemplar. But it is true that states use this consistently to mobilize their populations.
  • Bryan Alexander on 03 Jan 12
     
    Interesting argument re: dehumanization. The examples he picks involve voiced, named characters, rather than anonymous hordes. This is another fine teachable issue.
Bryan Alexander

Before the Storm: game teaching community responses to extreme weather - 1 views

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simulation gaming gamification

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  • Bryan Alexander on 02 Jan 12
     
    Very low cost.
Bryan Alexander

Steve Jobs On Gaming: It's The Future Of Learning [Video] - 0 views

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simulation education gaming

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  • Bryan Alexander on 26 Dec 11
     
    Interesting short speech by Jobs on gaming as a learning tool. Note that he connects it to libraries. And that he emphasizes an evolutionary arc: games -> simulations. And also that it's from 1990, early on when Macs had barely no gaming at all.
Bryan Alexander

NYU Game Center » Graduate Program - 2 views

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education

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  • Bryan Alexander on 23 Dec 11
     
    The Game Center MFA starts Fall of 2012 The Game Center MFA is a 2-year Masters of Fine Arts degree that explores the design and development of games as a creative practice. The curriculum is centered on the creation of games and includes game design, criticism, programming, and visual design.
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