If you really think about it, Dungeons and Dragons is a video game that uses A LOT of video game mechanics. And if your DM (dungeon master) is cool enough to have a visual set up complete with the board and figurines, that’s all you really need!
Although what I’m about to say is subjective and dependent on the group of people a person is around, I think it’s reasonable to state that playing games in public is a strange and complicated experience. To clarify what I mean by “public”, I want to say that I don’t mean playing games via streaming…
After it was brought up in class today, I’ve found myself thinking more about my reactions to failure in video games. When I’m playing a game and I lose, die, “desynchronize” if it’s Assassin’s Creed etc… I usually am not that frustrated. I’ve played enough games and enough hard games at that, that I know…
The future is coming. Or perhaps already here. AI technology may soon be able to completely build video games from scratch even when used by somebody with no experience in game development or programming. In today’s digital landscape, there are many different AI technologies available for public use (many with a paid subscription to be…
My playtime with Assassin’s Creed Freedom Cry was filled both with enjoyment and inquisitiveness as I attempted to personally balance symbolic rebellion and gamified “winning”. First, I’ll say that I appreciated the artistic risks the game developers took to not only tell a story about rebellion and liberation, but to also give players the active…
Deep Rock Galactic as a whole is quite an interesting but incredibly fun game. In the game, you play as one of four dwarves; the gunner, the scout, the driller, or the engineer, each with their own unique weapons and tools. With up to four players, you work for the company Deep Rock Galactic and…
by: Nicole Kulick Through this class, I have started to learn about some of the inner-workings of games, and how they are developed. I am far from tech-savvy, and I in fact struggle with concepts such as coding. With that being said, I do feel I have learned a few things. As I have been…
“I suck at this game”. I don’t know how many times I have told myself this in the ~12 years I have been playing video games; and no matter how much or how little I mumble these words under my breathe, my performance at whatever game I happen to be playing never gets any better.…
Cheating. Undoubtably, this is one of gaming’s biggest taboos. Hardly anything is worse than a cheater in a video game. But you likely have read the title for this post and wonder: how is it then that I am writing in defense of cheating? Before getting into this perspective on cheating, let’s establish when cheating…
Warning: very mild spoilers (demo, tutorial, general description of plot) for the game CrossCode. If you have not played the game before, there is a demo available both online at the game’s official webpage and through steam which I highly recommend trying out. It will let you play the first twenty minutes or so of…
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