notes on theories and videogames…

Watching this brings me to childhood… or meditation… and suddenly everything is just a matter of rhythm and movement.

And after months playing Dragon’s Age, Aion and Borderlands, I felt it was the time to dust off my WoW undead warlock from its catacomb.
I stopped playing WoW at the same time of many of my fellows, in January, and once I returned last week (late July) I only found one of my raid contacts [...]

I was looking for a internet streaming transmission of worldcup games, when I found an interesting journalist article/debate on the Worldcup in a canadian television broadcasting company website. The article entitled “why the worldcup matters” (addressed to a Canadian audience), points that the Worldcup is nowadays the most important single sport event in the [...]

Some scholars would say that it has no “meaning”.
But everyone can understand this:

In my culture, there’s this popular saying/advice: “you have to kill a lion per day”, which means one should focus in solving a problem at a time. I would like to make a game from it.
It would be a fantasy fight game. Each day, a different fight, but only one fight per day. It wouldn’t [...]

The relation between theory and object in research practice has always caught my curiosity.
For some, research must be constructed from objects, and they fiercely defend their position, criticizing the scholars who tend to build their work starting from theories. From them I hear “I like theory but only when applied to objects” which is the [...]

This is how she started the conversation about Fairyland, one of the many Facebook game applications.
And she tells me she created her third profile of Facebook just to add the application and be able to create her third garden. This time it would be a new story, a new garden, counting with the experience from [...]

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When I used to play Utopia, I remember that great part of the gameplay and pleasure of play was the quantitative analysis of my province. Numbers and more numbers to know my defense per acre, wealth, offensive and defensive units, buildings and building planning. I used to spend like an hour or two per day [...]

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It is all about love, it has always been. Well, I don’t mean this modern romantic cheesy type of love (which I’m not exactly a fan) but well, I mean the philosophic possibilities of love conceptions.
Sometimes the cheesy meets the philosophic… check this video: