jrber763Nov 17, 20181 min readDifficult to fight gaming addictionAfter Thursday's presentation on gaming addiction, I read an article about how the Chinese company Tencent is instituting measures to...
cxmNov 15, 20182 min readWhen Do Badges Work?It was briefly mentioned in class that the badge system was not as effective as it was predicted to be in games to encourage youth to...
Jesse MartinezNov 15, 20183 min readLet People Enjoy Things: Immersive ARGs vs. "ARG Truthers"It's no question that immersive ARGs require a degree of suspension of disbelief-- even the most convincing narrative can have holes...
jacquesmNov 15, 20182 min readUniversal Paperclips: Play as the great beast of capitalismDuring my first play-though of Universal Paperclips, I came to the realization that I was a industrial monster. What first struck me upon...
nichoa1998Nov 14, 20182 min readBogost ResponseWhile I appreciated Bogost's article on corporate attempts to use games and the nature of the word "gamification," I feel like the...
Jersey FonsecaNov 14, 20185 min readCitizenship Games: Fixing the Relationships Between Work and PlayI am going to talk about three relationships between work and play, how the different ideologies have manifested, and their impacts. The...
nmcleanNov 14, 20182 min readGamification: a Tool Becoming Weaponized or a Weapon Already?Ian Bogost’s article about gamification being bullshit led me to think about some of the implications of gamification. Although he...
camrickNov 13, 20182 min readWhy ARGs Work Well...The First TimeToday’s guest lecture by Ashlyn Sparrow led me to think more about immersion and re-playability in alternate reality games. As a genre,...
peterforbergNov 13, 20183 min readGamification and Interfaces: Universal Paperclips is Destroying MeI am officially a victim of the digital age. Let's look at interfaces: 1. Universal Paperclips is a text-based clicker with minor...
Stephen BerkowitzNov 13, 20182 min readGame Theory in Universal PaperclipsGame Theory in Universal Paperclips *Contains spoilers for Universal Paperclips As I was playing through Universal Paperclips, each of...
sitverNov 12, 20182 min read"Save the Date" Vs NBC's "The Good Place"[This post contains spoilers of both things listed in the title] What is the meaning of life? How does it change if everything is...
Andre DollisonNov 12, 20182 min readSave the Date: Titles and MetagamingDuring my first play through of Save the Date, I expected to navigate between dialogue options to assist a potentially awkward, or...
flynnrichardson12Nov 11, 20183 min readDDLC and ME!ME!ME!: How Visual Novels and Anime Undermine Healthy RelationshipsAs someone who had never heard of Doki Doki Literature Club before this class, playing this game was an unexpectedly wild experience. The...
hayleygrayNov 11, 20182 min read DDLC, Dating Sims, and ViolenceContent warning: Discussion of mental illness, self-harm, suicide, and violence, including relationship violence. For the sake of...
wblahoodNov 11, 20183 min readMaking Meta From Madness: Constructing the Metagame of Competitive PokemonDiegetically, there are very few restrictions on elite battles in the Pokemon series. Want to compete for the title of champion with 6...
krajaratnamNov 11, 20184 min readI_AM_A_HACKER and "Mettaton NEO": Ease as a form of discouragement in Save The Date and Undertale Both a genocide run of Undertale and an exhaustive playthrough of Save the Date have at least one quality in common; discouragement of...
ardavidNov 11, 20183 min readReflections on the Disorienting Experience of Playing DDLC I unfortunately couldn’t make it to class on Tuesday, and playing Doki Doki Literature Club was a very intense experience that left me...
Michelle McMillanNov 11, 20182 min readA Problem with Let's Play CultureSurprisingly enough, the problem I'm going to discuss is not how bad some let's players are because of some ridiculous stuff they've...
jrber763Nov 11, 20182 min readProfessional Sports Turn to EsportsAfter the presentation this week on video game spectatorship, I read a Forbes article about how professional sports teams are beginning...
rrangwaniNov 11, 20182 min readMinecraft - the online experienceMy first experiences with Minecraft came when a friend gave me a cracked version of the game on a flash drive, which enabled me to play...
