Showing posts with label Tragedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tragedy. Show all posts
Monday, April 18, 2011

Epic choices, and the lack thereof

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This is a republication of a post from playthepast.org, which in turn was a drastically re-written version of a post that appeared on this b...
Monday, July 26, 2010

That Bioshock is tragedy

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The distinction between epic and tragedy seems very clear to us. Even if we lay aside the definitions those words carry in everyday English ...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Red Dead Redemption diary, day 2: in which character and practomime seem to have a cage-match, or, *yawn* cutscenes again

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A long time ago, I was going to write a book about character in Athenian tragedy. I think it would have been a good book, but I stopped writ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Brief classical thoughts on "No Russian"

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This blog may have some readers who have managed to miss the controversy surrounding the single-player campaign of Call of Duty: Modern Warf...
Thursday, July 3, 2008

Who’s the author of a video game? (In response to comments on my post “On the profundity of Halo and Bioshock” (4))

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You can find the comments appended here . It seems like a good idea to attempt to summarize individually and then respond individually to wh...
Wednesday, June 4, 2008

(Gaming) Homer Course-design (3): Units (syllabus, more or less)

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This is a post in a series taken from the preliminary version of the course-design document for CAMS 3208. Dig in and see what you think! Pl...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

D&D and Plato&Aeschylus

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Ray Huling has a fun and thought-provoking piece at The Escapist this week. He's arguing among other things that the RPG is a sort of ...