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Bryan-Mitchell Young aka jccalhoun


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Hopefully I am just about done with my thesis. When I am I will update the papers on here. I have used most of them in one form or another. I am kind of embarased by the old ones posted on here. I think they are so horribly written! Oh well, I am sure that most people have similar reactions to their old work. I am not going to be in school nexy year. NYU is just too expensive. So if anyone reading this knows of a PHD programm that I should go to in 2003 let me know!
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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.