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Video Games: The Highly Visible Art — Part 2

Portrait Of A Plumber Entering The Third Dimension
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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)
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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 …

Respite

Hot Coals!
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It’s been an

exhausting weekend. My schedule showed three barbeques in three days, and I almost accomplished that much. Friday night I went to Pete and Bec’s for her birthday, and despite an enormously rude faux

Catan

Settlers of Catan
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A few of

my friends and I sat down and popped the cherry on my newly gifted Settlers of Catan board game last night. We’ve only recently been exposed to the world of board games beyond Snakes-and-Ladders …

Friends and couches

Red Couch Project Set 10 (44 of 70)
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I’ve been listening to Editors’ new album ‘In This Light And On This Evening’ pretty much constantly for the last couple of weeks. Some albums seem to strike some part of me that is completely helpless to …