Share on Tumblr Terra Nova takes a gander at Seeking legitimacy among game scholars and how the scholars hope to affect future games in some way but in reality don’t affect much at all. The problem is that we tend to be marginalized from that which we study, intended to comment upon but not...
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Share on Tumblr Torill Elvira Mortensen writes on Story Construction . . . worth seeing: One point sounds familiar: how the creaters of games, the designers, are creators not of stories, but of narrative potential. I know I worded this argument years ago, but was that in one of the many sessions of discussion...
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Share on Tumblr Was looking for some references to Live Action Roleplaying and Freeforms (interactive dramas of the type I wrote my doctoral dissertation on) and stumbled across badgerbag’s gender and gaming. While I will agree that many within the gaming community are unaware that there may be a problem regarding sexism in gaming,...
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Share on Tumblr The New York Times take on LARP (live action role playing games) is worth a read. If you’re in Taipei and would like to participate in games of this type, check out the Taipei Interactive Theatre Socity. Share on Tumblr
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Share on Tumblr This was quite the busy weekend for yours truly. Very busy. I am one dog-tired puppy . . . but . . . even so, it was a pretty good weekend. Red Badge of Courage I started off the weekend on Friday, presenting a solo paper to the Thirteenth International Symposium...
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Share on Tumblr Bitter Tears at Sad Mary’s is a wonderful interactive drama freeform live action role playing game by Scott Beattie and Tonia Walden that plays with the nature of reality. It is predominately an experiment in deconstructive interactive drama with a twist. It is a small piece with merely a dozen players...
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Share on Tumblr As posted previously. If you are interested in joining the recreational interactive drama group, feel free to contact me or Michael Cheng so we can add you to the list of folks who would like to play. You can find photos from some of our games (Taipei Interactive Theatre Society) in...
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Share on Tumblr Vicarious Experiential Memory Machine . . . real experiences through Hypnotic Games and Films and Literature and Entertainment . . . and a whole lot more! You want to play a game? How about if you could play a video game or watch a movie or look at a photo album...
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Share on Tumblr I have added a slew of interactive drama freeform live action roleplaying game photos to the galleries at Interactive Drama Photos (http://public.fotki.com/briandavidphillips/interactive_drama/). Share on Tumblr
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Share on Tumblr I love movies and I love gaming and ever the twain shall rock my socks off. Out of Hollywood, Rising Fascination With Video Games discusses a recent trend in Hollywood of uber-directors starting to take a real interest in making video games. We’re not just talking about spin-off games that are...
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Share on Tumblr We’re going to be rebooting the Taipei Interactive Theatre Society for those interested in participating in live action roleplaying games. If you are in Taipei – or live close enough to attend games every month or so – and have a desire to dress up as strange otherworldly characters in a...
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