Hello! I'm Altug Isigan, a game studies scholar and game design teacher who spends most of his time reading, thinking and writing about games, art and creative writing. I'm a founding member of the IGDA Game Design SIG and a co-editor at Game Design Aspect of the Month (GDAM), a collaborative blog on game design which we run together with Sande Chen. I hold a PhD in game studies which I earned for a dissertation on interaction and narrativity in video games. I like being on Gamasutra because it makes me feel connected to people who care about games as much as I do. Links: http://altugi.wordpress.com -- my blog on games http://gdsig.wordpress.com -- Blog of the IGDA GDSIG steering committee http://gamedesignaspect.blogspot.com -- Game Design Aspect of the Month http://kafaayari.wordpress.com -- a clog on games (in turkish)
Games produce meaning, which allows us to say that they qualify as language. In this article I provide a preliminary sketch for a linguistic approach to games and apply it to the well-known game Rock-Paper-Scissors.
Non-winnability is often interpreted as open-endedness, and also being brought up as part of arguments that claim that games aren't stories. In this article I will discuss why these views are flawed.
Ian, r n r nthe problem is that such issues cannot simply be reduced to buy it and if you don 't like it, don 't buy it again . This reduces your ability to criticize something to your spending power and to the size of your wallet. It changes ...
Just to make a little correction: The grief example belongs to E.M. Foster The Art of the Novel , as far as I know. He uses the example to point out the importance of causality in turning into narrative what is otherwise only a statement. Causality reframes the relationship between ...
After I 've seen Terry Gilliam 's commentary, I had to think of the Coen Brothers, in particular Barton Fink. Do we have meanwhile stories about successful indies that fail terribly in the AAA Games industry Worth a game, eh
'Can a game ever tell a specific story and still preserve the importance of player choice ' r n r nOh man, billions of games have done this. Really, when are people going to realize that what they see as story getting in the way of gameplay is just a ...
@Val r nI think the kind of responsibility he talks about is to take on the responsibility to provide a complete game whose internal systemic interactions and relations with the player collapse into a meaningful plot-like experience. In other words, when you develop a system to a certain point but ...
