Over the past months I’ve been working on my class project I have experimented with a number of games. It seems that games have varying degrees of standardized introductions. Most of my experience is with WOW which is really broad in its instructions. Wow has a server that is set aside for new players. This [...]

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I began playing Cities of Heroes sitting on the couch while eating dinner. Since I was eating, it gave me lots of time to sort through my powers and create the lore of my avatar. Since I am not a gamer, I found this part rather boring, but I could see why people enjoy it. [...]

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These are sort of the expanded version of my class lecture notes.   I’ll be tinkering with it after I re-read all the readings. (Thanks to T.L. Taylor, Tom Boellstorff, and especially Teri Silvio and a whole bunch of literature I am not explicitly citing here) 1)      NOT IMMERSIVE.  The Immersive fantasy would be first person: [...]

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As I was saying in class the other day, Machinima (a contraction of ‘machine’ and ‘cinema’ which as far as I know no one knows how to pronounce) as found, for example, on Youtube, represents a really useful resource for representations of online environments, and is part of the ‘media ecology’ of what Mimi Ito [...]

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