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Bryan-Mitchell Young aka jccalhoun


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So i was checking my log of hits today and found out that some people use some pretty interesting search terms to find my site. some of the more interesting terms used include:
heart attacks as a result of fps, diablo 2 strong stratgy (I've never played Diablo, let alone mentioned it. i've no idea what a stratgy is!), fps groin (wonder what this person was trying to find!), is it justifiable for children to play videogames, enjoyment + csikszentmihalyi (kind of proud that this one showed up!), andrew darley, scene or paly on horror (?), flow stateexperience sports gender women (again nice to see something resasonable show up even though they probably didn't find what they were looking for), find older people playing fps (This person must not watch the news, because the news says that only kids play videogames! and the news is never wrong!), if a tree falls in the woods who wrote (?), metal does not cause violence (?),

Of course the irony that by posting these search terms that they will be more likely to appear in search engine results is not lost on me. Why do you think i did it? ;-) (must be in a good mood. need to go play more killing simulators to get angry and depressed and gloomy)
posted by Bryan-Mitchell at 1:42 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.