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Month: September 2018

Making Videogames Avant-Garde: A Retrospective on the Dreamcast

September 28, 2018 R0s3nTh0rn Leave a comment

The article:  The Dreamcast, Console of the Avant-Garde by Nick Montfort and Mia Consalvo Summary: In this article Monfort and…

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432: One Standout Guy – An Examination of Materiality and Parameters of Character in The Stanley Parable

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Amongst arrays of cubicles, one encounters vestiges of the employees who used to reside there, gleaming hints of personality among…

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Posted in: Close Playing Filed under: 432, meta, pencil sharpener, The Stanley Parable

Anita an Orange

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A brief look into the oranges scene in Brendon Chung’s, Thirty Flights of Loving.

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Bonus Round: Rapture and the Mental State of Andrew Ryan

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While playing the game I notice some striking parallels between Rapture and Andrew Ryan. On a literal level both are…

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Close Playing: Portal

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Kalani Pannasch-Heineman Games and Culture Close Playing: Portal While beginning the video game portal, I found it pretty simple to…

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A Look at Portal

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In my playing of portal, I found that I was able to get through several of the puzzles quickly and…

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Close Play: The Stanley Parable-Museum Ending

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As the title of the game suggests, The Stanley Parable is, at its core, a simple story about a character…

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Close Playing – Jesse – Portal

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Jesse Davis 9/26/18 Games and Culture Close Playing: Portal             This small video clip is from the “last level” of…

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Types and Bytes. Ludic Seriality and Digital Typography: A Summary

September 26, 2018 ahill4 Leave a comment

In the Journal for Computer Game Culture, Lisa Gotto writes about how ludic seriality offers a way to discuss the…

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Posted in: Article Summary Filed under: digital games, digital typography, type rider, typography

Gaming For the Visually Impaired

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Columbia Engineering computer scientist Brian A. Smith has developed the RAD — a racing auditory display — to enable visually…

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