Who remembers our Game Club? Anyone? Yeah, no, I don’t remember what happened to it either. I do remember picking up Mr. Robot for it though, and aside from a few control issues thought it was pretty great. Whereas I paid for it, you can now grab it for free, since it’s turned up on GameTap’s ad-supported service. You can’t argue with a game called Mr. Robot, and you can’t argue with free, so no arguing, OK? [Mr. Robot @ GameTap]
OK, time to kick off the final discussion for Mr. Robot. Hit up the link below to join in the campfire. Remember this time around we are discussing the game up to the end of the cryo room. Joining us today is Georgia Tech professor Ian Bogost, the author of Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames and a recent guest on the Cobert Report. So get your questions ready and hop on the link. If the room is full please follow along here, I’ll be keeping an eye on the discussion and trying to post questions from here into the room.
Don’t forget. Our last meeting for the Mr. Robot edition of Game Club is Thursday. This time around you’ll need to complete the game, which really shouldn’t take that much longer if you’ve been keeping up.
Feel free to make any suggestions about formatting for Game Club here. Our next meeting isn’t till Thursday night so we have time. Also, if you missed the first or second meetings, you can still jump into the discussion over in the transcript we posted from the event.
Don’t forget. Our last meeting for the Mr. Robot edition of Game Club is next Thursday. This time around you’ll need to complete the game, which really shouldn’t take that much longer if you’ve been keeping up.
Feel free to make any suggestions about formatting for Game Club here. Our next meeting isn’t till Thursday night so we have time. Also, if you missed the first or second meetings, you can still jump into the discussion over in the transcript we posted from the event.
OK, time to kick off discussion number two for Mr. Robot. Hit up the link below to join in the campfire. Remember this time around we are discussing the game up to the end of the cryo room. MTV’s Stephen Totilo was kind enough to drop by to help in the discussion. So get your questions ready and hop on the link. If the room is full please follow along here, I’ll be keeping an eye on the discussion and trying to post questions from here into the room.
We’ll be gathering in our collective reading rooms and haberdasheries to talk about Mr. Robot tonight. As usually meet-up here at 9:30 p.m. Eastern to either follow along with the discussion on the site or get your foot in the door of the Campfire discussion room. (Sorry, I wasn’t able to work out the IRC stuff in time for this meeting.) Remember, you should try and play through the end of the Cryo section by the meeting tonight. As a special treat MTV’s Stephen Totilo, certainly one of the best analytical minds around when it comes to game discussion, will be joining us tonight to talk Mr. Robot and prove just how idiotic I sound when compared to his brainy ruminations, but mostly to talk Mr. Robot. Mr. Robot Assignment Two
PS. I know haberdashery doesn’t make sense, but I like using the word, besides I’m sure at least one person will be signing in from a store.
Don’t forget. We meet again to discuss assignment two of Mr. Robot. This time around you’re supposed to play through the Cryo level and return once more to the holo deck. This section should take about two hours, it seems. Much better than the 11 or so it took to complete that first section.
Feel free to make any suggestions about formatting for Game Club here. Our next meeting isn’t till Thursday night so we have time. Also, if you missed the first meeting, you can still jump into the discussion over in the transcript we posted from the event.
Oooops, I almost forgot to post this. I’ve been so busy with Kahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhn! That I nearly forgot we need to know what to play to in Mr. Robot for our meeting next Thursday. This one should be fairly easy. Just play until you get through the Cryo level and return to the holo deck. I’d like to think it won’t take 11 hours this time around, but I don’t dare say that. See you then. The Mr Robot Discussion Part 1
This is it. The first discussion meeting for Game Club’s Mr. Robot.
If you haven’t been following along we’ve decided to play through the indie PC game Mr. Robot as a group. To join in you can either try to enter our campfire or just hit the jump and follow along with the discussion going on in there. We will be updating this post as the discussion unfolds. Feel free to talk about the game in the comments, but please try to keep to the rules.
Which are these:
Once in the room, I think I’m going to use another IM system to let people IM me to either raise their hands, digitally speaking. I’ll tell people in the IM when they can talk in the campfire room. The idea here is that we don’t want a few dozen people all trying to talk about the game at the same time. So, I hope we can get someone to ask an intelligent question and then take turns discussing it. Remember this is a work in progress so we’ll make tweaks to the mechanics of how this works as we proceed.
A cardinal rule will be that there will be no off-topic talking, no trolling, no flame wars, no fan-boyism in the campfire chat or the person will be kicked out. We’re all intelligent people, I don’t see why we can’t act like we are when gathered together online.
In general the idea is for people to discuss the current video game in a thoughtful and meaningful way. Why we won’t totally disallow discussion of things like graphics and play mechanics, those particular topics should really be brought up in a way that addresses the deeper meaning and ideas presented in the game.
Hit the jump for the discussion and the link to join the campfire group.
Wow, it’s like uni all over again. I was up till 3:30 this morning cramming for our Mr. Robot Game Club, I suspect I wasn’t the only one. Having nearly played through the first assignment, I can attest that there is no way in hell this is an eight hour game. Which is a good thing. My wife, suspicious that she may have married a lacklustre gamer, is suspicious that perhaps I just suck at Mr. Robot, but I’m assuming those of you playing along have noticed that the game is much longer than we originally thought…. someone… anyone?
