Worlds of Bookcraft
As I mentioned last week, I ended up with pages worth of notes after this year’s Frontiers of New Media symposium and a number of ideas that have been floating around in my head ever since. I decided to start…
Videogame Theorist, Game Developer and Interdisciplinary Nerd
Videogame Theorist, Game Developer and Interdisciplinary Nerd
Month September 2011
Postcolonialism in Space
It seems that I’ve been doing a lot of reading on postcolonialism lately, so not surprisingly, I’ve been thinking a lot about how issues of colonialism are portrayed in videogames. Of course, the first title to come to mind in…
Freight Trains and Monkey-Controlled Robots
Those of you who follow me on Twitter probably noticed an uncharacteristically large burst of semi-coherent tweets over the weekend. This was due to my attendance at the Frontiers of New Media symposium last Friday and Saturday. The symposium is…
Thanatogaming: Life in Minecraft and Death in the Nether
The first day in Minecraft can be rough for a lot of people. You find yourself alone, with no objectives, no goals and no instructions. Just an endless, open world for you to try to make sense of. Of course,…