People love to talk about what is a game and what isn’t! With this HANDY-DANDY FIELD GUIDE (TM), understanding what those insistent people mean can be up to one infinity times easier! It can also be up to two infinity times harder, if you disagree with me or are easily confused. But hey! That’s your [...]
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Your Handy-Dandy Field Guide to “X IS NOT A GAME”
Posted by lauramichet on September 29, 2011
http://secondpersonshooter.com/2011/09/29/your-handy-dandy-field-guide-to-%e2%80%9cx-is-not-a-game%e2%80%9d/
POST-PAPERS EXHAUSTION POST!
All of my writings for school are done. My brain hurts, and migranes have inflicted me with temporary blindness. I wrote 35 pages in two days and read over a thousand pages in one weekend to prepare myself for the process. Now I cannot focus my eyes more than five feet in front of my [...]
Posted by lauramichet on June 2, 2010
http://secondpersonshooter.com/2010/06/02/post-papers-exhaustion-post/
Logical Journey
In 1997, I made a new best friend. He was the son of an incredibly famous person, but I didn’t know this at the time. I actually remember my parents being rather shocked when they met his mother—as I learned much later, she’d been all over the news for reasons related to Bill Clinton’s government [...]
Posted by lauramichet on May 21, 2010
http://secondpersonshooter.com/2010/05/21/logical%c2%a0journey/
Distilled to a purer substance
Have you ever played a game where the minigames or secondary goals were more exciting and compelling than the rest of the entire game? It doesn’t happen often, but it happens. Through extensive research (asking my friends), I’ve found that this varies in a highly personal way. I had a friend in high school who [...]
Posted by lauramichet on May 10, 2010
http://secondpersonshooter.com/2010/05/10/distilled-to-a-purer-substance/
A Palmful of Guilt
The sun rises around 6 am and that’s when it starts to come full force. Something about the hazy pink morning light strikes the perfect chord of misery. The mouse in my hand is a palmful of guilt, guilt, guilt, and my fingers clatter on the keys like the legs of a spider. It’s Final [...]
Posted by kentsutherland on May 9, 2010
http://secondpersonshooter.com/2010/05/09/a-palmful-of-guilt/
Having a minor crank about games PR
There’s something that’s always bothered me about games PR and marketing: some companies turn out hype copy that’s either grammatically incorrect, soulless, or nonsensical. Stuff that reads more like a frantic commercial software pitch than an attempt to capture my imagination. It’s true for plenty of products, yeah—I mean, this is the whole point of [...]
Posted by lauramichet on April 16, 2010
http://secondpersonshooter.com/2010/04/16/having-a-minor-crank-about-games-pr/
Games Ebert
Hello, I am a college student. When I am not reading academic articles about the transgression of gender boundaries in French autobiographical comics, I am reading about video games. Let me assure you, both are basically interesting, but it is far less fulfilling to study something which you cannot participate in yourself. So I enjoy [...]
Posted by lauramichet on April 11, 2010
http://secondpersonshooter.com/2010/04/11/games-ebert/
Max Payne and the Pictoralists
Kent’s post about games and their relation to old media got me thinking. It’s best to read this one if you’ve read his first. Because my 360 is at school and my computer is too shoddy to handle Bioshock 2 right now, I’m currently playing Max Payne. In case you never played Max Payne, here’s [...]
Posted by lauramichet on March 23, 2010
http://secondpersonshooter.com/2010/03/23/max-payne-and-the-pictoralists/
Becoming Art
In response to the popularization of the daguerreotype in the mid 1800s, Paul Delaroche famously declared: “from today, painting is dead!” For the past few centuries, paintings had been coming closer and closer to reality, and suddenly here was a new medium—photography—that seemed to render all of those efforts pointless. Enter Manet and the impressionists, who [...]
Posted by kentsutherland on March 22, 2010
http://secondpersonshooter.com/2010/03/22/becoming-art/
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