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/
Translations
For the past week, I’ve been playing through the original Starcraft’s single-player campaign. For the first time. I’d attempted it five or six years ago, but I was embarrassingly awful at it and therefore hated it. I’d grown up playing many, many RTSes, mostly set in human history. My favorites were the Age of Empires [...]
Posted by lauramichet on August 27, 2010
http://secondpersonshooter.com/2010/08/27/translations/
Do I control your body or your mind?
I’m going to talk about Loved now. If you haven’t played it, you should go fix that. It won’t take long. I believe that all games require trust. When we start playing a game, we form a pact with it. To some extent we’re giving ourselves to that game—we’re allowing it to affect the way [...]
Posted by kentsutherland on July 11, 2010
http://secondpersonshooter.com/2010/07/11/do-i-control-your-body-or-your-mind/
Dying in Space
I failed to restore oxygen to the moonbase. It was devastating, at first. I knew that I was going to fail long before the moment actually came—by the time I had about 8 minutes left, I was pretty sure that the end wasn’t going to be pretty. I put it down to my inability to [...]
Posted by lauramichet on July 7, 2010
http://secondpersonshooter.com/2010/07/07/dying-in-space/
Oh God, not THAT discussion
On this blog, I’ve been trying to keep my commentary as far as possible from the “girls and games” topic, partially because I feel like I have little that is original to add to the discussion. I am a female who plays and enjoys nearly every kind of digital game and I have never seen [...]
Posted by lauramichet on June 30, 2010
http://secondpersonshooter.com/2010/06/30/oh-god-not-that-discussion/
Is Deus Ex 3 a movie or a game?
Because it looks like it would be one hell of an excellent movie. I haven’t seen a cinematic trailer this long, plotty, or robust in a while. I mean, I’m totally aware that cinematic trailers can be like this. I didn’t expect gameplay footage or anything. But usually when we see these kinds of things, [...]
Posted by lauramichet on June 4, 2010
http://secondpersonshooter.com/2010/06/04/is-deus-ex-3-a-movie-or-a%c2%a0game/
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/
Games are Dreams
Okay, bear with me for a bit. I’m going to pull some crazy literary theory shit. There’s this one famous footnote that Freud added to one of his books, Interpretation of Dreams, years after it was originally published. The gist of the footnote is this: “Hey, everybody, quit assuming that EVERYTHING in dreams is a [...]
Posted by lauramichet on May 20, 2010
http://secondpersonshooter.com/2010/05/20/games-are-dreams/
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/
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