Play’s Republic

This afternoon I found myself in several game shops in Paris’s Latin Quarter. As I don’t speak French, I couldn’t engage with the shop assistants, but was able to glean some visual information about the video game culture in France.
The first notable distinction was the store window display. More thrift store than electronics […]

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I can’t say that I thought much about games and narratives while on break, but now, faced simultaneously with Avatars of Story and fond memories of that time before Avatars of Story, I find myself inadvertently putting the two together.
At one point in the book, Ryan argues for “an intermediary position […]

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When I joined the Second Life and started to get used to its culture, I found an article either at the official blog of the Second Life or at the secondlifeinsider.com. (I can’t find the article again!) It was a short story about two girls whose avatar boyfriend at the Second Life left them for […]

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Here’s the powerpoint file that Hilary and I used earlier. Unfortunately, you missed the last 2 or 3 slides of the ‘criticism’ part because we didn’t have enough time to actually finish the presentation that day. If you want, you can just simply click here and check our presentation ideas again. I recommend you to download […]

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