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Bryan-Mitchell Young aka jccalhoun


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the Masters of Doom book is really fun. it's a great read. as one who has played nearly all the games mentioned in it, it is cool to read about how they were made. not really academic at all, but worth reading. Also worth reading is the old classic Game Over by David Sheff which is a history of Ninetendo. Those of you who are especially attentive readers may pick up a mention of my old school Bowling Green.
Some folks have been calling for shorter games. Let me point you to my latest gaming obssesion, Strange Adventures In Infinite Space , a game whose tag line is Explore the galaxy...in 20 minutes or less! I've been playig the heck out of their demo. It's great fun and intend on buying the full game as soon as remember to bring my credit card upstairs to where the computer is.

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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.