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Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

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Revolutions are often thought of in terms of conflict and disorder, but they just as often come on waves of peaceful obsolescence. The old way of doing things is allowed to…

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Games don’t do storytelling well because they can’t deliver the four key components of story. There is no hero. Time is in the control of the player, not the creator. There…

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Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. Once the words…

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Bookmark Cave Painting: Videogames as Art
Lanchester allowed that computer games would never tell us as much about character as other forms of narrative, but pointed out two great virtues of the form: “The first is visual:…

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The film critic Roger Ebert’s recent comments about video games and their potential as art, and especially the immense stir the comments caused on discussion forums all over the internet, shows…

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When one plays most videogames there is a tacit understanding that one is entering into a fictional world – the term virtual world, is often deployed to mean exactly this. It…

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Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments
Vimeo

November 14 2017, 8:44am | Comments
GIFbites GIFbites at بیت بر ثانیه / Bitrates

May 19 2014, 12:04pm | Comments
YouTube

March 25 2014, 6:27am | Comments
Vimeo

April 1 2013, 9:00am | Comments
Bookmark "Videogames are the experience of being ruled"
Revolutions are often thought of in terms of conflict and disorder, but they just as often come on waves of peaceful obsolescence. The old way of doing things is allowed to…

May 17 2012, 3:32am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Games within videogames: Hoarding

February 20 2012, 7:05am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
"How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
The 20 Best Videogames of 2011

December 20 2011, 2:35pm | Comments
Bookmark VideoGames can't tell stories
Games don’t do storytelling well because they can’t deliver the four key components of story. There is no hero. Time is in the control of the player, not the creator. There…

November 24 2011, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Do writers need paper?
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. Once the words…

October 24 2010, 5:05pm | Comments
Bookmark Cave Painting: Videogames as Art
Lanchester allowed that computer games would never tell us as much about character as other forms of narrative, but pointed out two great virtues of the form: “The first is visual:…

September 3 2010, 6:29am | Comments
Bookmark Video Games And The Philosophy Of Art
The film critic Roger Ebert’s recent comments about video games and their potential as art, and especially the immense stir the comments caused on discussion forums all over the internet, shows…

July 11 2010, 4:32pm | Comments
Bookmark Game Design as Make-Believe (4): Fictional Worlds
When one plays most videogames there is a tacit understanding that one is entering into a fictional world – the term virtual world, is often deployed to mean exactly this. It…

May 12 2010, 3:28pm | Comments

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