Category: affect

• Being a fan sometimes has its costs

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  April 20, 2011

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  affect, games, research, thoughts

  I should be working on a book chapter, but the news today has me thinking in parallels. Elisabeth Sladen, the actress who played Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who and the Sarah Jane Adventures has died due to cancer at age 63. It has been a bad year for fans with the passing of the…

• Hats of Affect

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  March 3, 2011

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  affect, games, publication, research

  The article is finally out – many thanks to all at Game Studies for a great collection!

• Realism and Immersion

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  February 11, 2011

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  affect, games, research

  (I’ve posted on this previously but this is an updated version, as part of some reflections on the topic for the chapter mentioned in the previous post) My issue with the use of the terms ‘realistic’ and ‘realism’ to talk about texts like movies and games started when I first went to the cinema to…

• FPS Abstraction

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  February 10, 2011

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  affect, games, publication, research

  An abstract I submitted last year to a call for contributions for a book on First Person Shooter (FPS) games (with the awesome title: Guns, Grenades, and Grunts: The First-Person Shooter) has been accepted for further peer-review. Now I have to get cracking and write the chapter. Here is the abstract: Creativity, Contagion and Control:…