Dys4ia
The American Psychiatric Association defines gender dysphoria as:
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Prom Week
Prom Week is a recently released game from the UC Santa Cruz Expressive Intelligence Studio. It takes place in an over the top, stereotypical American highsc...
Poking Around in Passage
Written as a blog checkpoint for engl376, Electronic Literature with Dr. Whalen.
Gravitation
Jason Rohrer describes his Gravitation as “a video game about mania, melancholia, and the creative process”. In Newsgames it is provided as an example of a ...
Full Stack Criticism
JFK: Reloaded (Traffic, 2004) is a simulative game that purports to accurately model the John F. Kennedy Assassination. Players experience the game from the...
Extra-Functional Significance
In computer coding, it is considered best practice to leave comments for other users of the code, most often yourself in the future. Comments surround functi...
Introduction: Reading Code
I’m reposting the final paper from the English senior seminar I took with Dr. Whalen last fall semester. It is an exploration into Critical Code Studies. Her...
Games are Complicated
In the latest edition of Game Studies, Miguel Sicart wrote an intentionally provocative piece title “Against Procedurality”, which attempts to poke at the id...
Farcebook
This semester (Fall 2011), I took CPSC 330: Object Oriented Analysis and Design. To illustrate object oriented principles, a large portion of our grade was a...
Hacktivist Post-mortem
I posted the final section of my paper from last spring’s independent study (actually there was another section where I looked at current examples of games I...