Reference no: EM132576739

Assignment: Topic: Gaming topic

Type of paper: Creative writing

Discipline: Other : Paper (for Blog) about gaming

Format or citation style: APA

Submit your second blog post to the course Wordpress site and the Dropbox linked below. Your blog can be on any topic related to games and culture brought up so far, so think of the readings, games, and discussion/lecture points that have interested you. You can use those interests to brainstorm potential topics for further exploration in your blog.

A list of possible topics from this unit includes:

1. How does narrative/storytelling operate in games? How does narrative relate to the other parts of games--the rules, mechanics, interfaces, art, sound, controls, etc?

2. What types of stories are games best for exploring? What do they do better or worse than other media? How could games be used to tell important stories, and why do they matter?

3. How is gender portrayed in games and media about games? If you wrote on this topic for unit 1, how is gender specifically portrayed in Gone Home, for example?

4. What role does nostalgia play in gaming culture, and the materials we have looked at thus far? Think of Gone Home and Ready Player One, for example.

5. How do indie games like Gone Home compare to more mainstream games? What are the industry and market factors at play in these games, and how do they affect how the games are made?

6. Beyond the Twine games we have played or that you are making, what are the possibilities for software like Twine? How could it be used in education? Business? Medicine? Think of new applications, and explore them with research!