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Bryan-Mitchell Young aka jccalhoun


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Thankfully, there does indeed appear to be sanity in this world. At least some people agreed that the Spike TV Video Game Awards were the worst thing since BMXXX to happen to the videogame subculture.

So, for better or for worse the semester is over. papers are written, grades are turned in. In the two classes in which a final paper was due, I of course wrote about videogames. I'm not too happy with how they turned out. I felt like I had to rush through them (which I did). I suppose we will find out when the grades are released!


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First-Person Shooters Aren't Like Movies and That is a Good Thing --A paper about why Shooters aren't like films and how comparisons to them do a disservice to what Shooters are.

That paper was presented at the 2002 PCA under the title "More Than Moving Pictures: Developing New Criteria For Designing and Critiquing Computer Games. The presentation version can be found here. The handout I distributed can be found here.

Identification in First-Person Shooters

Flow in Multi-player FPS gaming (.rtf file)

my reviews

here are a couple of reviews I wrote for joystick101.org

Mark J. P. Wolf's The Medium of the Video Game.
Arthur Asa Bergers Video Games: A Popular Culture Phenomenon.