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Bryan-Mitchell Young aka jccalhoun


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So i finally got around to spending some quality time with a Tony Hawk game. I bought Tony Hawk 3 for X-Box as part of their platinum line. I'd played it when if first came out on PS2, but never put any quality time in on it. I'm liking it quite a bit. I found it impossibly hard at first (I even went so far as to build a nearly empty skate park with just a couple of ramps to kind of get the hang of it, but the tutorial did help). But now, of course I rock at it. I have to say that for the first time in quite a while I have gotten sore thumbs! I guess that is a testement to who good it is as much as anything!
posted by Bryan-Mitchell at 7:48 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.