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Bryan-Mitchell Young aka jccalhoun


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So I am (sort of) happy to announce that I have been accepted to the Level Up Conference put on by the DIGRA this November in the Netherlands. Honestly, I didn't expect to get accepted. When I checked airfare to the Netherlands back in April, it was less than $600, now it is like $1200! Not sure if I can swing. that. Have to see how much money for travel expences I can con IU out of. I really want to go, but man, that is a lot of money.

I bought Command and Conquer: renegade for cheap a coupel of weeks ago. I've never played any of the traditional C&C games, so teh whole bakstory is sort of mysterious, but honestly, good guys and bad guys, not too tough. I'm enjoying it a surprizing ammount. I like the additon of the extra goals as it goes along. Don't like the stupid AI of the occasional allies that have a habit of running in fromt of me.

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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.