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Designing Competition

Taylor’s book provided a useful and in-depth look at the emergence and evolution of e-sports. Her discussion of the culture likely helped a lot of people (or at least some people) begin to recognize the potential, or at least the significance, of e-sports. It was interesting reading about the divide between higher and lower skilled…

Unlimited Potential

Bogost’s article on what games are capable of is a very necessary read for a large swathe of people who want the medium to grow and for those who simply don’t understand the value, or at least use, of the medium. It also provides some actually useful delineations between different aspects of games’ varied aesthetics,…

Millennial Monsters

So I was super pumped to read this weeks reading and I was not disappointed with Anne Allison’s work at all. I loved what she wrote about and the way she wrote about it. The two topics that stuck out to me was Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Sailor Moon. Both shows are from my childhood and…

The Shock of the Old response

The reading for this week was interesting as the book challenged the way we think of technology in history. I am not talking about the classic made us seen technology in a new light but more of it tried to open our eyes the the way technology is viewed in different countries and how we…

The Shock of the Old

Edgerton’s The Shock of the Old enlightened me to an interesting problem I’ve had when looking at history. Specifically that it isn’t sequential.

Reading Response and Tentative Topic for Final

The concept of Nationalism tied to sports really does, ultimately, prove that Sports are essentially small-scale wars. I think it also creates a question of who is “playing” the game: the players, or the people with investment who watch? The way sports/body-culture have shaped propaganda and vice versa brings to question the sorts of motivations behind…

Training the Body

A player is not just interfacing with the game, they’re interfacing with the people watching it, too.