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The Story Of Doodle Jump: Brotherly Love And Digital Snacks Have you just been gaming for the past two hours? You just did the equivalent of a line of cocaine, says UK counsellor and therapist Steve Pope in the Lancashire Evening Post.
The term ‘melodrama’ is a somewhat loaded term — ask a few people if X media counts as melodrama, and you’re likely to get a variety of answers. Michael Abbott discusses melodrama in one accepted context (a definition that I would quibble with based on my own background dealing with ‘melodramatic representation’) in reference to games. Yes, we do do melodrama — everything from GTA to Metal Gear to Final Fantasy plays with at least one interpretation of melodrama:
