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Reading Response to “Fuck Videogames”

Reading Response to Darius Kazemi’s “Fuck Videogames”

Every time new technology is released, people obsess over it. The phone, the television, the computer-each of these was the “big thing” in their own respective time prior to a newer…

Book Review: Rise of the Video Game Zinsters

I like to consider myself a casual gamer. By this I mean, I love to play video games and I may get competitive from time-to-time, but I’m nowhere near the level of what many would consider “hard-core”, consuming days playing, researching, reading and…

Reading Response to “Why the book’s future never happened”

There is a never ending discussion that has been around for a few years now. Many people who are writers or wish to become writers have heard the topic at least a few times. This topic is on the future of books and why…

Reading Response- “The Prose Medium and IF”

For my reading response, I chose to elaborate on my thoughts and opinions regarding Emily Short’s Wordpress posts that she put together. First, I want to start off by mentioning why I chose this reading to respond to- the one major problem I have always…

The Educational Failure

To this day I have never met anyone who expressed to me that they enjoy failure. Additionally, I have never met anyone that has told me they dislike winning. We all like winning, we have been taught from childhood that there is always a winner and a loser. Games have taught us that…

‘Curse this rock that will not budge

After months of arduous collection of the necessary jiggies, Banjo, Kazooie and myself had finally reached the top of Gruntilda’s hellish, grim tower. After her typical rhymed monologue she throws the first punch, a fireball to my face. I get hit by it. Fat chunk…

Reading Review: Rise of the Videogame Zinesters

It’s rare for any highly-regarded professional to invite amateurs into their industry, especially in the seemingly exclusive gaming industry. Interestingly, the first reading assignment in this ambiguously titled ‘Interactive Digital Storytelling’…

Monkey Business

Emily Short’s: Counterfeit Monkey is a game that must be played. The story is in depth, the movement and controls you are allowed to do are incredible. I can truly say this is an piece of interaction fiction that I was completely immersed. The reason for the immersion wasn’t simply because of the…

Losing My Mind Over Lost Pig

Lost Pig is a parser game created in 2007. The main objective of the game is to help Grunk, a pig farm worker, find a lost pig and return it to his boss at the farm.

The world of Lost Pig is pretty simple. To begin with, there is just a forest, a field…