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Once It’s Framed, Straight to the Pool Room
Cover image created by Midjourney using prompt: man staring at a piece of framed artwork in a pool table room, point of view from behind. Rounding out my blog posts today, I am going to run you through my analytical frameworks I have been using as part of my digital artefact this semester; nostalgia, persona…
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Clone Hero, More Like Participation Hero
Cover image created in Midjourney using prompt: king gizzard and the lizard wizard When asked to think about participatory elements of my game media text, me having multiple, my mind was immediately drawn to Clone Hero. This game text is fundamentally built upon participatory elements including but not limited to connectivity, multimediality, interpretation and reconfiguration.…
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Hold Up, Lets Run it Back
Cover image created with Midjourney using prompt: doom, video game After submitting my pitch for BCM215 I was feeling quite confident. But as this week’s task was to peer review my classmates’ pitches, I had to get nit-picky. I provided feedback on Tanise and Riley’s posts, both who have stand out topics and helped me…
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Ready to Rock ‘n’ Roll
Cover image created by Midjourney using prompt: guitar hero facing off against mario, stylised like a UFC poster Hardcore music in video games is a fairly recent topic of convergence in contemporary history. Peripheral-based music games were rarely commercially successful until Guitar Hero and games alike came along. Guitar Hero reunited bands such as Motorhead and The Sex…
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Have You Ever Wanted to be a Goat? Neither, But Let’s Find Out
Cover image created in Midjourney using prompt: goat simulator in space If you’ve ever played Goat Simulator, you’ll know exactly what I mean when I say it’s a bad game, but is it so bad… that it’s good? Okay let’s get into the basics, Goat Simulator is quite literally a game of what the name describes, you…
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“Oh I Loved Skate 3!”, No, I’m Talking About the DS Version, ‘Skate It’
Cover image made using Midjourney. Prompt: a skater doing a kickflip over marios head, all set in a new york city street, 2023. Whenever someone mentions skating games, most people will either gravitate towards Skate 3 or any of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater games, but my mind (and heart) will always be reminded of…