Ethan Della RoccaNov 11, 20184 min readMeta Language as an Audience Barrier in CS:GO(CW: FPS Violence) We've spent a lot of time this week discussing esports and the meta language that can surround games. By chance (or...
Daniel SolnikNov 11, 20183 min readWhy Doki Doki was so depressing to meAfter I played Doki Doki, I needed 3 days of Netflix to recover. When I downloaded it off the marketplace, I expected a bright, happy...
mgjoshiNov 11, 20184 min readHow okie dokie is Doki Doki’s portrayal of mental illness? [TW self-harm, of course] In class on Tuesday (and in a couple previous blog posts), there has been a lot of discussion about the extent...
rmeleusNov 10, 20182 min readWhen Metagaming interferes with the experienceWhen I first dived into League of Legends, I was super hyped. I never played a MOBA game before, but the idea of playing tons of...
mrjacksonNov 10, 20184 min readNerf This! - Balancing and the denial of preservative laborAs Ian Bryce Jones made abundantly clear in his essay about the "iterative design" model of early-access games, players often react, erm,...
tjuan9513Nov 10, 20185 min readForward, Forward (Backwards, Backwards)Regarding this post, I must state that while I am a casual/intermediate skilled player in the fighting game genre (at least in Tekken 7),...
Albert AboafNov 10, 20181 min readIf you stare into the E-Void eventually the E-Void stares back into youA lot of the discussion we've had regarding the meta has been in the context of games commenting on and impacting games, but I feel like...
squidtmNov 10, 20182 min readCompetitive multiplayer is how you keep people playing foreverIan’s talk on how to give a game longevity was enlightening, but I think he missed one of the most important ways a game can retain...
Jaire ByersNov 8, 20183 min readFor Free? (Interlude): "Playbor" in The Sims' Modding CommunityIan Bryce Jones's lecture this week brought up ethical and economical implications of the relationship between the amount of content...
Cavell MeansNov 8, 20182 min readChange is Inevitable: Patches and How they Affect GamesAfter reading Ian Jones' piece on the minecart boosters in Minecraft and how players were so upset about it being changed, it got me...
davidmatzNov 8, 20184 min readLayers of Metagaming in League of LegendsNormally when I play league I use /mute all to disable the chat at ~1:40 in every game (and for reasons I won't immediately launch into,...
Samantha XiaoNov 7, 20183 min readJust Monika: How DDLC Flips the Script on its PlayerAn interesting way to think about visual novels and dating sims in general is how they change the dynamic between player and game in...
alexfriedman115Nov 7, 20181 min readMetagamingOur discussion of metagaming was our interpretation of DDLC and its characters' awareness of a world beyond the game whether it was aware...
lnlupaNov 7, 20182 min readModding Means MetafictionDuring class, we discussed the fact that Save The Date and Doki Doki Literature Club both allow or even encourage players to interact...
camrickNov 7, 20182 min readTreatment of Mental Illness in Act One of DDLC[DDLC spoilers included. Content Warning: mental illness, depression, suicide] Today in class we talked about many great concepts which I...
bagatelosNov 6, 20182 min readMinecraft is Life now... apparentlyThe Jones reading for Thursday, “What were ‘minecraft boosters’? Minecraft, digital distribution and preservative labour,” poses some...
guarinojNov 6, 20184 min readPlayer Consent and Content Warnings in DDLCCW: Suicide, self-harm, depression [SPOILERS BELOW] The first thing you see when you try to download or play Doki Doki Literature Club is...
Matt ZehnerNov 6, 20185 min readPlayer Agency and RevisionismCW: Suicide, Self-Harm (Basically all of Doki Doki) Doki Doki Literature Club deconstructs the elements which constitute a traditional...
Stephen BerkowitzNov 5, 20183 min readThe Human Condition to GamifyWarning: This biog post contains spoilers of Save the Date and Doki Doki Literature Club. With most of the games in this course, I tend...
Siri LeeNov 5, 20185 min readMetafiction, Immersion, and Cult Followings (Doki Doki and Undertale)(((DOKI DOKI SPOILERS))) When I finished playing Doki Doki Literature Club on Saturday, I felt like I needed to just sit and stare at a...
