Comments on: ’tis done

By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:42:26 +0000

Well done, beat me by about 2 weeks (I hope!)

By: Ben Buckley

Ben Buckley — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:18:09 +0000

Dammit, Jesper! It’s a good thing I’m writing my BA Thesis and not my dissertation, because you would have just stolen my thunder and forced to find a new project. I just explained to my advisor last week the “machinic experience” versus “diegetic discourse” continuum (dialectic) that I’m working out, with HL as the perfect midpoint synthesis. I suppose that’s what the “as confirmed by” footnote is for… BTW, we met briefly once, at the Digital Genres Initiative conference gaming panel here in Chicago. I asked about game versus narrative. I would be really interested in reading your dissertation. Any chance I could get a pre-press?

By: olli leino

olli leino — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:42:12 +0000

…still waiting for the “another day” ;-)

By: Gonzalo Frasca

Gonzalo Frasca — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:31:39 +0000

Congratulations Jesper!
Keep on your excellent work!

By: Anders Fagerjord

Anders Fagerjord — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:22:32 +0000

Gratulerer!!
Look out, kids, doctor ludology is out among us!

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 14:11:26 +0000

Congratulations!

By: andrew stern

andrew stern — Sat, 18 Oct 2003 06:31:14 +0000

congrats! I look forward to reading it when it’s ready for public consumption.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:16:59 +0000

Congratulations! Now you can take a break from all that hard play and … do some work?

By: JP

JP — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:34:26 +0000

I can think of no word used more arbitrarily in all of game-dom than “realism”. Realism is whatever the developers think is realistic. Sometimes it’s little graphical touches, sometimes it’s blood loss algorithms, sometimes it’s just a bullet point on a box that sprang from a publisher or marketroid’s head.

Kinda raises some deeper questions about the inherently imperfect, arbitrary nature of simulation – all simulations involve some degree of abstraction (the concept of play, especially, values safety and stylization of “too complex” elements over accuracy) and that separates them from the Simulated Thing. And of course part of that “imperfection of simulation” comes from the perspectives of the simulation’s creator(s), which was the central issue in the recent discussion of the September 12th game.

Anyhoo, congratulations on finishing the dissertation, Jesper! Relax and play some good games.

By: nowak

nowak — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:31:59 +0000

Sounds interesting and topical to an discussion I’ve had recently (and many times over)… self-defined “realistic games” that force you to find a key to open a wooden door, when you’re armed with explosives (which, obviously, do not work on a wooden door).