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On ‘Authorial Intent,’ Game Designers, and Gamers
It’s been a while since the Space Giraffe kerfluffle where Yak Minter threw a hissy fit in his blog regarding poor scores given to the XBLA psychedelic shooter (and the point where it was compared to Joyce’s Ulysses, but I came across an interesting piece recently that talked about Space Giraffe in reference to (wait for it) a piece of literary theory known as ‘authorial intent.’ The post-structuralist conception is (at least in part) that the critic’s will and opinion always supercedes that of the author. What does this have to do with Space Giraffe? Well, it’s one way to look at why there was such heated discussion over Space Giraffe:
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