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In response to my prior post, Lars Konzack writes,

I'm not sure this statement is true, because the computer as medium is much more than just gaming. It's the world wide web and databases, desk top publishing and e-mails as well. A combination of these types of computer media would in fact make the difference between fantasy and reality blurred like in the Blair Witch Project.

I would have to say that, while such a project sounds incredibly fun (Like Majestic was supposed to be. Although it got horrible reviews, I regret not playing it before it was discontinued). I would have to argue that things like Majestic, and what Lars suggests, would not be a videogame. It would be a new kind of game that used computers.

of course this raises the issue of defining things. What is a videogame and what is a game that just uses computers of some sort?

posted by Bryan-Mitchell at 11:26 PM

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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.