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Studied
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3 comments on StudiedThis Is Not a Game: Collective Subjectivity and Immersive Entertainment – a paper by Janes McGonigal at UC Berkeley. Seems interesting, although I find its comparisons between drug-taking and immersive gaming to be a little sensationalist, but perhaps worthwhile in some way. I’ll take a proper look later today. Jane is no stranger to immersive…
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GamesFilter
What with yet another release of a MetaFilter engine clone, I’ve gone and registered gamesfilter.com. It’s not active yet, and probably won’t be for a while until I’ve experimented with various engines, but eventually I hope to turn it into a MetaFilter-esque forum for interesting and breaking news regarding massively multiplayer online games. And let…
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One Thousand Days Later
With the image of immersive fiction games becoming increasingly negative, and the competiton to attract players for massively multiplayer online games becoming increasingly fierce, how can the genre survive? Other than improved content and organisation, it needs to use new technologies and modes of thinking to its full advantage, and the prize is creating a…
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Future stories
An illustrated speculative timeline of future technology and social change – one man’s work to create a future universe that covers the next thousand years, all based on real scientific and technological speculation (albeit often tenuous speculation). A fascinating read. Along with reams of timelines and explantory material, the author has written some very original…
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The lament of the immersive fiction gamer
Dan’s just written a new article entitled The curse of massively multiplayer immersive games. “To be blunt: they have all, to a greater or lesser extent, sucked.
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Jargonwatch
As much as I love reading Wired, I find it a bit tiresome how they go completely over the top in using overtly techy terms when more normal (and accurate) ones would do. For example on the reviews page, Iain Banks is described as writing ‘post-cyberpunk novels’. Well, that’s interesting, because the last time I…
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Mutant Intelligent Mice!
Now this is why I love neuroscience. In a recent weekly paper presentation, one of the groups in my class presented a paper called Genetic enhancement of learning and memory in mice. After altering a single gene in mice, the authors of the paper managed to improve their learning and memory significantly, by up to…
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All wrong
This BBC News article about collaborate immersive fiction games would normally be a cause for joy, considering the great publicity it brings to the genre. However, the article is so wrong that it’s painful. For example: The first stage of the challenge, which had a $25,000 prize, was supposed to take people a month to…
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I want my MP3
Unlike many people at Cambridge, I don’t really visit the libraries except to pick up the odd paper that I can’t find off the web. I certainly don’t work in libraries; the atmosphere feels intolerably stifling, as if you’re being forced to work by the mere presence of dozens of your peers’ eyes upon you.…
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Orbital Who?
“I will camp outside the BBC with a placard, saying ‘Let us do it! At least, let us have a go!’” Orbital, talking about their Doctor Who remix and their deep, unabiding desire to do the music for any future BBC Doctor Who series.
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