writing
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Sunday Supplement: “a kind of domestic reverie”
2Welcome to your Sunday reservoir of interesting writing about video games. Grab your reading jacket, a cup of coffee and get ready to exercise the brain. Above 49: Instancing Emotion Nels Anderson acknowleges the emotional pull that fosters camaraderie in Left 4 Dead and ensures its co-operative play works. Gamasutra: Kill Polygon, Kill: Violence, Psychology,…
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Sunday Supplement: “while Celestial Apocalypse rampaged around the region”
Welcome to your Sunday reservoir of interesting writing about video games. Grab your reading jacket, a cup of coffee and get ready to exercise the brain. GameSetWatch: Challenge and Storytelling The always excellent Emily Short examines the ways in which gameplay challenge can inform the way in which a game’s narrative is told and lending…
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Sunday Supplement: “where history’s finest jet packs had flown”
Welcome to your Sunday reservoir of interesting writing about video games. Grab your reading jacket, a cup of coffee and get ready to exercise the brain. Ragdoll Metaphysics: A Love Letter To The Good Old Fashioned Jet Pack Jim Rossignol hovers above the contribution the humble jet pack has made to the history of games.…
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Sunday Supplement: “an indication that the AI is completely contaminated”
Welcome to your Sunday reservoir of interesting writing about video games. Grab your reading jacket, a cup of coffee and get ready to exercise the brain. Gaming Daily: Empty shell protagonists Craig Lager argues that blank slate player-characters allow the real stars of a game – the NPCs – room to shine. Gamasutra: A Circular…