Can There Be Game Without Play How does one define play or game? David Golumbia says that play is what we do when using a game. When I sit down and use a game, I consider myself as playing that game. Golumbia believes that the words game and play are being misunderstood. In the…
While reading Games Without Play by David Golumbia, you may feel intrigued to carry on with reading his work, or perhaps feel like the concepts are dragging on and that he should just get to the point. Whatever the case may be, you cannot deny the fact that Golumbia invokes all types of ideas into…
In David Golumbia’s Games without Play, he writes a portion of his passage on Leveling Up and Machtgelust, the idea of a lust for power being what drives the games such as World of Warcraft can be linked to almost every game I would believe. The idea of this gaining power and flaunting ones power…
Golumbia’s writing was very interesting and most definitely thought provoking. I would like to focus on one of the sections called “Gaming as Work” and the idea that games are work, and the pleasure we get out of it, is the pleasure of completion. Throughout his writing Golumbia presents a fair argument, and broadens the…
It seems like eons ago, as Katherine Hales puts it in her essay on digital literature, when people were bending the rules to expand the world of literature to printed books. It was a monumental change that helped launch a new era of Renaissance and it helped to establish a new benchmark for education. Today,…
A Book to Watch and a Film to Touch At least that is what the LA Review of Books is calling Pry, A Novella. Pry is an interactive book sold as an app on Apple devices. It is written by Samantha Gorman and Danny Cannizzaro who collectively call themselves Tender Claws. There are five chapter…
Title: Pry, A Novella Authors: Danny Camnizzaro, Samantha Gorman Format: iOS App Review by Keegan Ragan Pry by Danny Camnizzaro and Samantha Gorman isn’t what you would expect from a typical e-book. Instead of what is simply a book copied onto your device, Pry is a much more dynamic approach towards the emerging e-literature genre.…
Writer David Golumbia’s article, “Games_without_Play,” has been posted online and you, as one who has studied digital literature and played Gone Home, have been asked to post a comment in response. Please compose a 500-700 word response to Golumbia and post it to our class blog. Consider your context. What is the genre of the…
So I made this in Blogger because of technical issues and I really don’t want to reformat the whole thing, so here is the link. https://eng211mowery.blogspot.com/
Exploring the Idea’s behind “Dreaming Vividly” “Nothing happens unless first a dream.” Carl Sandburg Have you ever been aware that you were dreaming? Just for a moment? Wondered why you were where you were? Maybe you woke up from a dream, that was so cool, or crazy awesome / out there that you wanted…