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Collapsing action; or, games of life and death
- 1. { }Collapsing Action; or,games of life and death Interactive Entertainment 2013 Robbie Fordyce School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne
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- 4. Terminal • Two formsof inertness: • Attrition – Tends towards an absence of interactable objects • Order – Everything has been ‘organised’.
- 5. Minecraft Videogame Mojang Studios Modified witha map editor to remove all landscape features
- 6. Magnasanti Sim City 3000gameworld Vincent Ocasala
- 7. Dwarf Fortress Bay 12Games Fortress by Luke van Ryn
- 8. Civilization V -Scientific Victory Videogame Firaxis Games
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Editor's Notes
- #3 Death a relatively everyday event in videogames – this observation itself is so commonplace that it is largely redundant, but this is the starting point for this discussion. Aesthetically, there is still something unsettling about the acts of violence that videogames allow us. The preponderance of death as a narrative problem-solving tool is something that remains problematic. One of the larger problems is that often there are a lack of alternative methods of problem solving, such that the few handfuls of narrative games that do allow for alternatives are trucked out to justify the rest.
- #5 Terminus, explained.