Synthetic Words, Player Behavior and Games Research: Digested, Digitized and Distributed
Everyone remembers the Corrupted Blood incident in World of Warcraft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood) in which players would purposely bring a disease from a raid mob back into cities to kill people off. In one of the new Sunwell encounters, players fight Brutallus, a pit-boss style mob who occasionally casts a “burn” debuff onto players. This debuff lasts […]
Recently comments similar to “except I’m old so i don’t know how to play games like you” or “But you younger people just know how to play games, and I won’t be able to understand them” have saturated the classrooms I’ve been in. The disconnect between professors speaking on the subject of games, and those […]
Fellow PhD student Travis Ross got to do a guest blog on Virtual Cultures today about Tacit Knowledge!
Click here and check it out.
Mark Bell today proposed an idea to me which I’m going to try to persue in a more in depth sense for an upcoming panel discussion. We talked about World of Warcraft and its ability to train management skills through normal game play. Though here I will use the terms “manager” and “leader” interchangeably, I […]
Recently a fellow student at IU, Phoebe Elefante, made a statement that got me thinking. She said, quite simply: “I am my avatar.” This made me consider the implications of avatar creation, and how choices we make every day are much like avatar creation in games.
As an example of an avatar, the image bar […]