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Digital Games Cultures
Week 3
[game] Space And Place
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Wark, Mackenzie 2007
'Allegory' Gamer Theory,
Harvard University Press,
Cambridge.
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This SpartanLife
http://www.thisspartanlife.com/episodes.php?id=4
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Optical devices
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Allegory
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Algorithm
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Allegorithm
The intuitive experience and the
organising algorithm together are an
allegorithm for a future that in
gamespace is forever promised but never
comes to pass [wark 2008; 30]
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Wark 2007 [031]
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Space
TIME
Roads? Where we're going, we
don't need roads. Dr. EmmettBrown
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Arcades archaeology
mutoscope electric shockstereoscope love tester
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Simulation and Deviance
Duck Hunt (1940s e.g.)
Heavy hitter (1949)
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Pinball
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Computer SpaceS
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Japan - Pachinko
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1972-1990 Arcade era
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Home consoles slow to
penetrate
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Batman lego
http://www.flickr.com/photos/model_gal/
2891086123/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/model_gal/
2891924362/
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Murphy, Sheila 2004, 'Live in
Your World, Play in Ours:
The Spaces of Video GameIdentity',
Journal of Visual Culture,
vol. 3, no.2, pp223-238.
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Hjorth, Lriss 2007, The
Game of Being Mobile: OneMedia History of Gaming and
Mobile Technologies in Asia-
Pcific. Convergence: The
International Journal of
Research into New MediaTechnologies, 13: 369-381.
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Mobile Cultures
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http://pacmanhattan.com/
Escape from Woomera http://aminima.net/wp/?p=412&language=en
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http://www.tacsi.org.au/challenge/
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Blogging Task
Summarise your Potential role in the group and your
contributions and ideas to the project
what to do you think is a feasible project management approach
ie how might you organise your group?
what kind of project are you interest in developing ?
what do you want to include in the pitch? What digital literacies
and creative skills can you bring to the group?
With reference to one of the readings this week describe how your
game is to be controlled and what this might mean for the players
sense of space, location and sense of interaction online and off?
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Week Three Group Exercise
The Cutting edge
The research task This Week will focus on
locating sources of cutting edge
technology and user Innovations in the
games industry including experimental and
indie titles that require us to Rethink
game spaces, both public and private, in
different ways.
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Last years projects the playground -
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-
technology/onlive-game-streaming-
service-to-start-in-june-20100311-pzlk.html
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