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Just what is a Game Studies anyways?
Just what is a Game Studies anyways? dropouthangoutspaceout: So if you operate in my circles of the internet, the last day or two has been rather hilarious to see some game designers, as well as some old guard game studies academics either come out in support or criticism of Brendan Keogh’s call for assemblage thinking…
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Companies like Uber and airbnb are enjoying their Andy Warhol moment, their $15 billion of fame, in the absence of any physical infrastructure of their own. They didn’t build that— they are running on your car, apartment, labor, and importantly, time. They are logistics companies where all participants pay up the middleman: the finanzialization of…
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“By breaking down the elements of character into small chunks and re-combining them based on randomness and, more important, responses to the player’s choices, Shadow of Mordor tells a story that could never exist in another medium,” Levine writes. “If the audience could somehow change a plot point in Death of a Salesman, the narrative…
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Working in the Whitespace
stoweboyd: I was reading a great Quartz piece by Camille Ricketts, How this booming startup invented its own flat hierarchy, about Gumroad’s new way of working. One quote about tools caught my eye: Fewer tools means that people need to be more resourceful, and this is a quality Gumroad hires for aggressively. “One of our core…