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Bryan-Mitchell Young aka jccalhoun


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So school is back in full swing. Just got done grading my students work. I'm too tired to game! I finished Return to Wolfenstien this week. It was OK. nothing great. No One Lives Forever 2 was better. I tried to start playing Unreal 2 but it crashed on the first real level and corrupted all the saved games. So screw you Unreal 2. this isn't the first time and Unreal engine has done this to me. Deus Ex crashed on me about halfway through the 3rd level back in the day and it wasn't until over a year later that I reinstalled it to give it another chance. We'll see how long it is before I reinstall Unreal 2.
posted by Bryan-Mitchell at 4:56 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.