Tristan Pope’s Not Just Another Love Story is a love story made in World of Warcraft (so it’s machinima, Animated filmmaking in a realtime game environment) by a theatre student in New York. It’s about a troll and a human who fall […]

Saturday morning at Aesthetics of Play and the World of Warcraft panel is on. There are three presnetations about WoW and the abstracts are all here. I’m fighting a very strong desire to just play World of Warcraft. Oh dear.

(At Aesthetics of Play) Mattias Ljungstrˆm – a lecturer in advanced media and game design in an interface design department in Potsdam. So design theory at the heart of his paper. Also it’s about World of Warcraft! Yay! The presentation is based […]

This presentation is interesting: he’s discussing Walkerdine’s discussion of how children say “I” about their avatar and the “complex indentification”. abstract.

Rob Fitzpatrick from Georgia Tech’s Game Lab is presenting on characters and morality. Three dimensions of dramatic dimension – games (in contrast) heavily oriented towards action. Psychological and social data is mostly absent. However morality is becoming more important/popular. In single player […]

(helen kennedy and seth giddings) Often been argued that video games are characterised by an aesthetics of control or agency. Mastery assumed to be the dominant (sic.) pleasure.

This presentation is done by remote in a system called mediasite, which has a rather successful interface, where she has her video in one window, and slides in another window. I guess it’s for distance learning, but works well in front of […]

Why am I in Vietnam?: A Computer Game Case Study Several voices in this presentation: A diary of his playing Conflict Vietnam, his critical analytical voice and the voices of the game developers. How does a game like this come into the […]

Ooh. The game conference just started, and Espen started his lecture by asking how many people have played World of Warcraft. Yay! Now he’s showing a screenshot from a raid with lots of high level characters, and yes, it’s so complicated. “How […]

I wish my trackbacks worked, but at least WordPress tells me when Technorati thinks someone linked to me. Here’s a short short story about a man who considers going ungoogleable. Damn good thing it’s a man, or I’d worry it was about […]