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It takes a village to raise a despot.
Mend your speech a little | Lest you may mar your fortunes. King Lear Joe Paterno, we are told, loves the classics. Yet his story seems closer to the tragedy of Shakespeare than the ancients. Ancient...
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Things in the news I don’t understand.
It’s a long list, but here’s a start: If University of California Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi claims that ordering UCD campus police to clear tents from the UCD campus was justified in order to...
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Airplane Reading.
Christopher Schaberg and Mark Yakich are moderating over at Airplane Reading. *** Here’s how I feel about planes. Don’t fall. Don’t fall. Don’t fall. Otherwise the view is fine, except when there are...
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Thoughts on blind players playing.
Tommy, of the Who’s rock opera Tommy, is blind. Yet a pinball wizard. Luke Skywalker, in the very first of the Star Wars movies, demonstrates his fledgling mastery of the Force by parrying attacks...
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Christmas is over.
Christmas over, shunned by the avian population it was intended to serve, the bright red bird-feeder stocking hung alone in the backyard, thinking of what might lie beyond the wooden fence and,...
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A bit about the relationship between games and narratives.
I’m pondering a bit more about the relationship between games and narratives. I’m prompted to write about my pondering due to the Koster post here. Koster’s argument is that a narrative can serve a...
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More about the relationship between games and narratives.
For a game to inspire specific retellings, to be narratively designed, it must involve actions whose purpose is not just winning or losing, but fulfilling a concrete goal. It cannot therefore be about...
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Upcoming: Futures of Literature.
I’ll be at the University of Malta workshop on digital games and literary theory next week. My presentation is called How games might annihilate narratives. [Update: pdf draft here.] The abstract. Here...
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ME3 and the bad-guy-thingies.
The last bit of game you play in Mass Effect 3 fires two missiles down the throat of an Empire-State-Building-sized mechanical (‘synthetic’) Reaper bad-guy-thingy. These two missiles, unlike the...
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Moved to dmyers.us/wordpress.
I’ve moved most things over to the dmyers.us domain — hosted at justhost.com (which is cheap and okay so far) — including this blog (http://www.dmyers.us/wordpress).
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