Recent content by MzRie

It's amazing how easy it is sometimes to forget that a text is not a story. What I mean by that is, when reading a book, or watching a movie, or playing a game, one can miss the forest for the trees, so to speak ? get so caught up in the story that one misses the larger work. Take Halo, for...

While I do agree with those who have pointed out that he is neither a hacker nor is that Super Mario Bros. he does no claim either of those things. As for why one would downgrade a game as opposed to advancing game tech, advancement isn't everything. One needs to know what to do with games...

Yeah, I know. I totally agree. White males have become the most oppressed group. I mean, sure, we make more money on average than every other ethnic group in the country, make more money than women in comparable positions, are rewarded by tax policies that favor our greater ability to invest...

The thing people don't understand is that this kind of behaviour isn't a result of the feminist movement. The modern feminist movement isn't about gender equality as much as it is about re-examining the concept of gender itself. This kind of behaviour is around because of the lopsided status...

People cannot read other people's thoughts, and while being a well-adjusted person requires reading social cues and having some manner of understanding that different people are in fact different, humans have a tendency to project ourselves onto others. This is the reason why, for example...

Bi-polar disorder with psychotic features, though I've been weaning off my anti-psychotic medication. Also, diagnosed as having OCD tendencies, but it really doesn't impact my ability to function, so it's not really an issue.

I'm not sure I agree with you thought at the end there about not comparing Tetris, Pokemon, and Call of Duty. While they play very differently (and Tetris doesn't have a traditional narrative, unless you want to extend narrative to game engine which I would not), they all have the common thread...

So still trying to figure out what is the best way to put up reviews here, since my articles tend to be a bit longer. To that end, I'll summarize and then put a link to the full article at he bottom of the post. So, without further ado... Post-Structuralist Programming: Narrative Action in...

veloper - Really appreciate the feedback. I wasn't going into this particular essay as a "first step" in trying to create a comprehensive understanding of videogames. I agree that if one were going to find a starting point for videogames, view would not be the ideal place, but this is going...

Also, gamestudies.org is a yearly-ish online publication of several articles which also go more i depth in videogame analysis, taking very different approaches. Actually, Galloway (the author I referred to before) has had essays published through this online resource, so there is quality work...

The most recent one's I've read (and most influential on this article) are "Gaming: Essays on an Algorithmic Culture" by Alexander R. Galloway and "Everything Bad is Good for You" by Steve Berlin Johnson. The first book isn't particularly long, but it is denase. I think it averages out to...

Thanks, I really appreciate the thoughts. I haven't seen The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, but I think i will go check that out as it sounds very good. I have seen Dark Passage in pieces (actually, while doing work for this article). I think what might be most telling is putting these into...

Hey, so I've been writing videogame articles for a friend's blog for a while now, but I've been trying to get them a bit more professional, so I thought I'd see if you guys could give me some feedback. Double-Take: understanding the First Person Perspective This starts off a new...