As he lays out his argument for video games as semiotic domains of active learning and fluid subjectivities, James Paul Gee, in What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, makes frequent reference to Pikmin, a 2001 release for the Gamecube from Nintendo, designed by the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto.
The following Youtube clips may help establish some context for those of you who have not seen the game before. The first clip is an occasionally-distorted videorecording of a person playing the game. The second clip is a States-side commercial for the game… which, for me at least, only served to make an already disturbing adventure a bit more unpleasant.
First, an illustration of game play, which spells out exactly what Gee is getting at:
And, perhaps, an accidental problematization of Gee.
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