A presentation on how video games are embedded into our culture today. A largely general view of things but with contemporary examples.

1. Video Games
as Culture and Experience
Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca
Computer Studies Division
Ateneo de Davao University
Web: www.villageidiotsavant.com
Twitter: @dcimafranca

2. Sorry for the boring title.
I thought I had to make it
sound impressive.
Because you know. Ateneo.

3. Confession: How I REALLY
got cervical spondylosis
last summer.

6. Actually....

9. What makes video games
so compelling?

10. A lot of it depends on
the personality of the
player.

11. “Maybe I'll get a better
score this time....”
Spirit of challenge
for the obsessive-compulsive
in all of us

12. “How do I solve this
problem?”
Games as puzzles
for the budding engineers

13. “What happens next?”
Discovery and Story.

14. An Adventurer
Is you!

15. Video games as Fiction
Framework of a story...
….many branches in the narrative
...with multiple possible endings.
Agency – the capacity for action –
in the player.

16. “Video
games
can
never
be art.”
Roger Ebert (1942-2013)

17. What is art?
An an arrangement of elements
in a way that appeals to the
senses and shapes the emotions

21. ...experience

22. Experience => Culture

23. Culture
– capacity to represent
experiences with symbols...
...to act creatively and
imaginatively...
...to share that experience
with others.....

29. But....what about us?

30. Consumer
–--------------Producer

35. Questions?

36. Video Games
as Culture and Experience
Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca
Computer Studies Division
Ateneo de Davao University
Web: www.villageidiotsavant.com
Twitter: @dcimafranca