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Month: June, 2010

Zorki-6 #1

I think these came out okay, despite losing what might have been better photos of Lou at the start of the film (not entirely sure how). The day on which the stacks and river photos were taken was beautiful, and …

Video Games: The Highly Visible Art — Part 2

Portrait Of A Plumber Entering The Third Dimension
Creative Commons License photo credit: Rob Sheridan

Introduction:

In my first post, I wrote that I considered a meaningful interaction with a video game as one in which the person that walks away from the game is not the same person that sat …

Video Games: The Highly Visible Art — Part 1

Quick Man (circa Mega Man 2)
Creative Commons License photo credit: B Tal

Introduction:

A little while ago, Jess Au over at Spike (the Meanjin blog, not the men’s lifestyle channel) took the time to expound on the consideration of video games as a medium of storytelling. It …

Incoming

Incoming
Creative Commons License photo credit: Erik Charlton

Just a quick heads-up for anyone who still hangs around here that I’ll be posting a series of entries pertaining to the theory of video games. The first of (what I think will be) five entries …