It’s also a cultural climate where audiences are increasingly used to thinking of books as media companions — popular film series like Harry Potter, Twilight and The Hunger Games, or TV series like Game of Thrones, all feel richer to fans if they read the books as well as enjoy the films.
Designers of text-based games can take advantage of that familiarity to bring audiences into worlds they can read and participate in. Not every fan would want to create fan art or fan fiction or do cosplay (though thousands do!), but it’s clear people very much want to interact with things they read, or to access written content in new ways.
“There’s always been a desire, when you read a book that you really like, to remain in the setting, and to remain engaged with it,” she suggests. “You put the book down, and somehow wish that world could go on… so I do see that as an opportunity. I see that as a place where i want people to re-engage.”
At the same time, Short says she can’t help but look at things from the perspecive of her “previous life” as a classics professor: “I feel a lot of the things people are doing now actually have really profound roots in human nature,” she says.
“The whole idea that a story is a kind of intellectual property and only counts the first time you tell it, and that it’s cheating to repurpose someone else’s story, to retell it, is… not the way people conceived of these things in the ancient world.” –Gamasutra – News – In-depth: Is it time for a text game revival?.
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Seton Hill new media journalism graduate Chris Ulicne, who now works for the Latrobe Bulletin, wrote a really nice feature on Stage Right (local theatre company and school for the performing arts). The full text of the article is not online, but this image is from the PDF of the front page (available through the Newseum). My kids are each in one of the shows that opened tonight at the Ligonier Town Hall.
Powerful story.
A colleague just sent me this kind note, which supplies a very-welcome jolt of enthusiasm as the semester winds down:
Humanities students are not used to failure. They want to get it right the first time. When they are new to the game, they want to get good grades on what are essentially first drafts. Once they learn how much work it is to write and edit a really good essay, their goals shift—from getting [...] I already felt fairly independent from my parents before I went off to college, as my older siblings were both good students who did not get into any trouble, so because I kept bringing home good grades my parents let me be very independent. I had (and still have) a good relationship with my parents, [...] I’m not giving any final exams this term. On the one hand, we tell students to value learning for learning’s sake; on the other, we tell students they’d better know this or that, or they’d better take notes, or they’d better read the book, because it will be on the next exam; if they don’t [...] I love a good infographic. HubbleSite – NewsCenter – Hubble to Use Moon as Mirror to See Venus Transit (05/04/2012) – Release Images.
Pittsburgh’s Trib Inadvertently Advises Readers to Shit Themselves.
The copy I picked up has been fixed. Our last day of classes is Monday, followed immediately by final exams. My freshman writing students still have a final revision and a final reflection due, but they seemed surprisingly relaxed today. They have all given informal presentations in both informal and formal settings, and turned in solid drafts. For my part, I’ve already returned [...] |
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