Lessons Learned

Goals and Sources The goal of Media Studies is to understand new forms of technology, and the affordances that come with each medium. The goal of my project, A Simple Game, was to give people an understanding of the community of people that play online shooters, a relatively new technology. I chose this topic mainly …

Final Artifact: “A Simple Game”

Here is a link to the most current version of my Twine game, "A Simple Game". It is a text-based game which tells stories (with a little help from machinima) about different scenarios that one may encounter while playing an online game. Positive feedback is appreciated; if anyone finds any bugs, typos, errors, or other …

Design Document

The original idea for my project was machinima (a film made solely in video games) with branching choices in a set of videos; given the extensive amount of time that that would have taken, the final product has changed into a sort of hybrid text-based adventure game/machinima narrative platform. Using Twine, I'm laying out this …

Week 9: Game Economies and “Fun” – Can they coexist?

Clive Thompson's piece "Game Theories" discusses how a player's in-game currency and assets can come to have real-world value depending on how people choose to trade them. Gamers have found a variety of ways to profit through selling/tradings goods and services inside the virtual realm. Some people have even quit their jobs in the real …