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Jake Shapiro's Member Blogs
The paradox of the open-world game vs. Alan Wake  |
| Posted by Jake Shapiro on Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:44:00 EDT in
Console/PC,
Design
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| How Alan Wake introduced the concept of "limited open world" that we need to see more often. |
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Mario Storytelling as Theater |
| Posted by Jake Shapiro on Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:23:00 EDT in
Console/PC,
Design
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| Analyzing Miyamoto's comment that Mario characters are really just a troupe of actors. |
| Read More... | 7 Comments |
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The Great Wall of Text and the 'A' Button: Where Braid Fails |
| Posted by Jake Shapiro on Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:44:00 EDT in
Design,
Indie
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| Braid is a modern masterpiece of indie game design, but that doesn't mean we can't look at its storytelling shortcomings. |
| Read More... | 20 Comments |
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Why aren't there more firefighter video games? |
| Posted by Jake Shapiro on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:42:00 EDT in
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| I look at the past and future of one of gaming's most-neglected niches: putting out fires. |
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Auteurs, Shadows of the Damned, and Suda 51 motifs |
| Posted by Jake Shapiro on Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:44:00 EST in
Design,
Console/PC
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| Shadows of the Damned is a flawed work, but Suda 51 represents something we need: a movement towards auteurs in game design. |
| Read More... | 1 Comments |
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Costume Quest is Fight Club for kids. |
| Posted by Jake Shapiro on Sun, 04 Mar 2012 10:59:00 EST in
Design,
Indie
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| Beneath Costume Quest's cute exterior, it's a story of children's hallucinatory fantasies about violent Fight Club-style battles. |
| Read More... | 0 Comments |
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Player gender and race in video games |
| Posted by Jake Shapiro on Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:29:00 EST in
Design,
Console/PC
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| Exploring why people play as who they play as, and whether avatars are reflections of the self or a fantasy. |
| Read More... | 26 Comments |
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What modern sports games tell us about competition in the market |
| Posted by Jake Shapiro on Wed, 31 Dec 1969 07:00:00 EST in
Design,
Console/PC
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| A graphical analysis of the last decade of sports videogames. |
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