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I have two things to write about today. First, Lars Konzack dropped me an email recently to let me know that he had read my article, First-Person Shooters Are Not Like Movies and That is a Good Thing" and liked at least one of my points enough to quote it and mention it on his site, Ludologica. Its always good to be some recognizion for strangers!

Unfortunately, I have also recently had my work used without my permission! I got a post in my message book encouraging me to participate in another site. Imagine my surprize when I went to http://mediaculture.org/ and found out that I already had participated! It seems that somone who goes by the name of Barkin had posted my Gender in First-Person Shooters article without asking my permission or giving me credit for the story.

I've talked to the person in charge, however and the situation has been cleared up. The story is part of a paper I did about identification in First-Person Shooters that I am using in my thesis. The excerpt was an article I have posted at joystick101.org. So while some people like my stuff and give me credit others like it and take credit! Oh well, karma is a bitch!
posted by Bryan-Mitchell at 11:52 AM

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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.