Bryan-Mitchell Young Presents:
jccalhoun Popular Culture Gaming

Here are my thoughts and comments related to me my research on videogames and culture.
Bryan-Mitchell Young aka jccalhoun


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Monday, July 08, 2002
 
I just added one of those fancy commenting things. so leave a comment!


 
I hate html.
So I'm hopefully getting close to finishing my thesis. my advisors want to get together and discuss their suggestions to make sure that they all agree. I value one of their comments more so i have already started to implement his suggestions. soo i will be done. then its on to the glamorous world of academia. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.





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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.