2003-02-21

The Gaming Situation notes


http://www.gamestudies.org/0101/eskelinen/


From Eskelinen: The Gaming Situation

(under 5, on the subject of expanding games to include real-life parameters,
and networking to the user space.)
"The pokemons on the screen and in your living room will pretty soon be able to
team up and steal your credit card numbers to order reinforcements."

Some conventions about maps (the environment) being shared, inviolate,
reliable. The character representation is always assumed to be in a normal and
not altered perceptual state.

"stuck with defining moving images in terms of pre-digitial cinema and its
reality capturing mythology"

[what would an un-narrative look like?]