acstanfieldNov 4, 20181 min readDisjunctive Affect in Gone HomePlaying through Gone Home, I felt a deep emotional investment in the game. This was due less to the story (which was indeed sweet, sad...
kellytrieceNov 4, 20183 min readThe Virtual Assistant: Why We Should Be Reading Siri as Electronic Literature When reading Murray’s Hamlet on the Holodeck, I could not help but to see the correlations between the 1960’s birth of Eliza to my...
ariannagassNov 4, 20183 min readTheatrical Metaphor in Jenkins and MurrayThis week I was particularly interested in the allusions both Jenkins and Murray made to digital media as a kind of theater. What role...
cgortmakerNov 3, 20185 min readBad Machine, Aesthetics, PoliticsI want to begin to explore an element of the 1998 interactive fiction Bad Machine that Marielle brought up on Thursday at the end of our...
clbeiersdorferNov 3, 20183 min read"Up Against the Screen Mother Fuckers"For the first presentation, my group decided to talk about Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw by Donna Leishman. When we were...
maesparzaNov 3, 20182 min readFirst-Person BodiesI’ve been thinking a lot about the conventions of first-person shooters and how they play into our understanding of Gone Home’s genre....
ajbarnhardtNov 3, 20183 min readUsing Evocative and Embedded Narratives for Research PurposesAssassin's Creed, Tomb Raider, and Uncharted have several game mechanics in common: free climbing just about any surface, adventure...
Dana GlaserNov 2, 20183 min readThe Ever-Expanding "world of--"I’ve been preoccupied with a passage in “Game Design as Narrative Architecture” for most of the week: on pages 4-5, Jenkins argues that...
zdsmithNov 2, 20184 min readEw, is that what their faces look like? Or: why it's essential that some games don't feature bodiesObviously there are a lot of technical/structural reasons why Gone Home and Save the Date don't feature much (or any, in Save the Date's...
Marielle IngramNov 1, 20183 min readDid Jacques Derrida (cheeky devil) know about electronic literature? I took it upon myself to ruin my fall quarter by taking not only a grad seminar with all of you but also taking John Kelly's advanced...
asawariOct 30, 20183 min readGIFs as the New MetaphorsSince yesterday, I’ve racked my brain hard in order to try writing something meaningful about how our hands have knowledge. Every time...
gabojOct 30, 20184 min readJRPG StorytellingSince we are discussing narrative in games this week, I thought it would be useful to take a moment to consider some other forms of...
rissbOct 30, 20183 min readGone Home and the Iconography of HorrorOne of the things I love most about Gone Home is the way the game tells its story through the spaces. We pick up the narrative (and...
David A. GarnerOct 30, 20183 min readGone Home & The Poetics of SpacePlaying Gone Home couldn’t help but bring to my mind Gaston Bachelard’s 1958 publication The Poetics of Space. Bachelard, early in the...
kameliaOct 29, 20183 min readStardew Valley and LaborI figured this week talking about Stardew Valley finally was appropriate, since I think it’s useful to use the game to think more about...
ariannagassOct 28, 20183 min readSubjective Hermeneutics?In this post, I’d like to summarize a series of claims from this week’s readings that resonated with me personally, while also thinking...
Marielle IngramOct 28, 20183 min readCasual Games and Internal Time Clocks In "Casual Games, Time Management, and the Work of Affect", the author focuses on Diner Dash and it's status as a time management game in...
Jenn JentesOct 28, 20185 min readWorking Girl: Gender and Racial Bias in Diner DashThis week, when we were asked to play Candy Crush or Diner Dash, I admit, I had a small amount of disdain for the assignment- I’m ashamed...
Dana GlaserOct 27, 20184 min readInteractivity and AffectThis blog post started with a hangover from last week’s discussion(s) about interactivity – I’d summarize a lot of that discussion as...
benny vanderburghOct 27, 20184 min readSwipe, match, relax: casual game daydreaming as affective calibrationIs Pokemon Go a casual game? If not, it still affected me last year in the same all-consuming yet uninvested way that Candy Crush has...
