kellytrieceOct 27, 20183 min readIn the Weeds: The Impacts of Impending Failure on Work Affect in Pink Collar Work Games“These games are organized around a mad rush, dash, hustle, or hop to complete repetitive tasks in a limited amount of time. However, as...
LauOct 27, 20183 min readWork, Jazz, and Habituation to a New Machine AgePlaying Candy Crush and Diner Dash this week, I was reminded of a book that focuses on another set of “leisure” practices characteristic...
EvanOct 26, 20182 min readour bodies, our self/phonesI’d like to expand upon (or, rather, think creatively and anecdotally with) one of the claims Richard Grusin makes in his chapter on “The...
margareteOct 25, 20182 min readMeditating Through my Self-Imposed Boredom: On Chantal Akerman’s Groundbreaking Feminist Work"Boredom is the response of somebody who can neither bear nor arrange (or perhaps just doesn’t want) to be relieved of themselves –...
cgortmakerOct 25, 20184 min readPerceiving Depresencing in BraidIn Mark Hansen’s “Ubiquitous Sensation: Toward an Atmospheric, Collective, and Microtemporal Model of Media,” I found the concept of...
ajbarnhardtOct 25, 20184 min readUsing Time to TetherIs our non-conscious, subjective experience of time an affect? After this week's discussions and playing Diner Dash, I would argue that...
nashjenkinsOct 23, 20184 min readDiagnosing Rage Two trends in postbellum American history seem particularly salient to this historical moment: (i.) the surge of radical politics,...
David A. GarnerOct 23, 20183 min readRevisiting the Affective FallacyGenerally speaking, I find what I have read of Gilles Deleuze and Brian Massumi in the past very compelling, in addition to some of...
clbeiersdorferOct 21, 20183 min readArt as Game. Game as Art. Brief History of Digital/New Media Art Digital art was coined in the early 1980's when Harold Cohen used a computer like apparatus to...
Steven WymanOct 21, 20183 min readComplicating the Curious Case of CompletionismEarlier this week, a classmate posted about “The Curious Case of Completionism,” describing how Braid forced them to overcome their...
jremillardOct 21, 20182 min readEmpathy and Frustration in Hair NahI was really interested in exploring Hair Nah as an empathy game, and how the game is used to generate a sense of defamiliarization and...
Jenn JentesOct 21, 20185 min readThe Princess Doesn't Need Saving in this One: A Hero Complex This week, our discussion about Braid brought up the concept of the princess being saved and how it is traditionally portrayed as the...
benny vanderburghOct 21, 20183 min readI feel weird about my body - witness and user comfort in "trans games"As I mentioned in class, I am on HRT, so I come to the game with particular “insider” (though notably not transfeminine) experiences...
kameliaOct 20, 20182 min readHair Nah: The Value of SimplicitySince Hair Nah was not really discussed during class, I’d like to look deeper into the game and what it's trying to convey to the player....
cgortmakerOct 20, 20187 min readParamnesiac Alcoholism in Braid: Interpretation, Completionism, and Intermediate AllegoryPatrick’s discussion on Tuesday of Braid’s critical relation to completionism—the goal of achieving every objective in a game—made me...
EvanOct 20, 20183 min readqueering replay valueAnna Anthropy’s 2013 Twine game queers in love at the end of the worldhas been—for me, at least—one of the most potent games I’ve played...
rissbOct 20, 20185 min readProblem Attic: Empathy and Implicating the PlayerI'd like to take this post as a chance to continue our discussion on empathy. With Problem Attic, we seemed to come to a bit of a...
maesparzaOct 19, 20183 min readGame Over. No, Seriously.In You Only Live Once, an obscure Flash platformer designed by raitendo, you control a bespectacled character named Jemaine. You start...
Marielle IngramOct 18, 20183 min readA Little Personal Reflection on Gamer/SF Culture We didn't talk much about the Lisa Nakamara today but it resinated with me more than I initially thought that it would. When I think back...
David A. GarnerOct 18, 20182 min readSelf-Awareness and Liz Ryerson's Problem Attic Recently, I’ve been considering more carefully the notion of mediation, particularly in regard to video games and other current digital...
