Showing posts with label bard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bard. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The Bioware style: KOTOR, light and dark (sketch 2)

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Spoiler warning : this post is one long spoiler from start to finish. If you haven’t played Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic , and you...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

The bard's role, divided

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This is a post in a series expressing the essence of my argument about how video games are actually ancient, how they reawaken the anicent o...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The bard's audience: participation and community

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This is a post in a series expressing the essence of my argument about how video games are actually ancient, how they reawaken the anicent o...
Monday, July 7, 2008

The mysterious dual: the smoking gun of epic interactivity

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This is a post in a series expressing the essence of my argument about how video games are actually ancient, how they reawaken the anicent o...
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...
Monday, June 9, 2008

The interactivity of the Homerids (4): bard and audience

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Now, finally, I’m going to tell you more about the Homerids—the Homeric bards (the “singers of tales”). For a very long time, indeed since t...
Saturday, May 31, 2008

The Interactivity of the Homerids (3): The Moment of Immersion

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Why do the in medias res thing I was talking about last time, though—besides that it’s a fun way to tell a story, and perhaps even that it ...
Friday, May 2, 2008

The sand-box of epic and the rails of GTA (2)

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This is a post in a series expressing the essence of my argument about how video games are actually ancient, how they reawaken the anicent o...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The sand-box of epic and the rails of GTA (1)

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This is a post in a series expressing the essence of my argument about how video games are actually ancient, how they reawaken the anicent o...