Future Cinema

Isbister presentation

http://prezi.com/bbl-wh9xyvea/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Sound Presentation PowerPoint

For anyone who’s interested:

https://we.tl/MzE2OE0GzL

Inception app

A link to the Inception App: https://www.wired.com/2010/12/inception-app/

Gaming for Understanding – Brenda Romero talk

Here is the link for the TedX talk we saw in class: https://www.ted.com/talks/brenda_brathwaite_gaming_for_understanding#t-167451
“It’s never easy to get across the magnitude of complex tragedies — so when Brenda Romero’s daughter came home from school asking about slavery, she did what she does for a living — she designed a game. She describes the surprising effectiveness of this game, and others, in helping the player really understand the story.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxPhoenix, an independent event. TED editors featured it among our selections on the home page.”

The Haunting

Article: Voices from Beyond: Ephemeral Histories, Locative Media and the Volatile Interface Barbara Crow, Michael Longford, Kim Sawchuk & Andrea Zeffirn

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.167.7394&rep=rep1&type=pdf

The Haunting is referenced on pg. 19.

How Games Move us – author lecture from 2015

This might be of interest – if you’re interested, check out Katherine Isbister’s 2015 talk :

“From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Katherine Isbister examines the new techniques that game designers and developers have added to the pantheon of media strategies for influencing how we feel while playing games.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqs4DuDc51w

link to the google doc for questions – oct 4 2017

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aRMBNQUmhd7EXErsp4dntbjlhwGKTTbjz-BM1d92i-Y/edit?usp=sharing

Tags: collaborative docs, questions, seminars

Question for Today’s Class – Games Cultivating an Affective Engagement with History

Isbister’s text primarily deals with the affective experience of playing games. As such, I was wondering if we could discuss how this affective engagement impacts how players comprehend history when they play games that deal with historical events? Does this type of interactive and affective engagement with history create more empathy (or other strong emotions) for historical actors than a film or a book would?

- Theo X

Summary of How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design

Hi everyone! Here are some notes for the Isbister reading and the questions for tomorrow.

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Tags: Emotion by Design, games, How Games Move Us, Katherine Isbister, presentation notes

sound readings…take 3

Oy…trying this one more time, hopefully with an active link. The summaries for the Labelle/Voegelin readings can be downloaded here:

https://we.tl/afB7A4Qah7

This provides a good overview regarding the general content & approach of both texts. During my presentation tomorrow I’ll be discussing how their thinking relates to Future Cinema specifically.