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Digital GamesCultures
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Today’s Lecture
Subject Outline and Course Structure
Games and the Pleasures of New Media
Formal Definitions – What is a Game?
Image by Wonderlan
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Subject Descripti
...investigates the emergence of digital
games cultures through an industrial
analytical approach and from the
perspective of the player. With
critical attention to the examination
of games production and appropriative
play practices,
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Contact Details
Dr Chris Moore moorenet@gmail.com
consultation via email appointment
for Monday and Thursday
Modes of delivery: 1 hour lecture
and 2 hour computer lab seminar
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Subject Requirements
To complete the subject students must
Submit all Assignments on Time and meet the
minimum attendance requirement for
lab/tutorial AND lectures in this subject.
Attendance to lectures and tutorial
is not optional. Attendance to lectures is
necessary in order to complete the weekly
blogging task.
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Schedule1st
March - Introduction to Digital
Games Cultures
8th
March - The Archaeology of
Digital Games
15th
March - Game Spaces: Place and
Mobility
22nd
March - The Console and the
Living Room
29th
March - PC Games and Gamers
5th
April - MID SESSION RECESS
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Schedule12
thApril - Appropriation and Play: Mods and Machinima
- Group Game Pitch Presentation during
Lab/Tutorial This week.
19th
April - Violent Media: in ‘Hot Coffee’
26th
April - Censorship and Regulation
3rdMay - Australian Games and Gamers
10th
May - Guest lecture
17th
May - Game Project Presentations (No Lecture)
24th
May - Game Project Presentations (No Lecture)
31st
May - (No Lecture) Short concluding seminar.
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Weekly Blogging Component
Assessed in Week 4, Wed March
24 by 8pm and in Week 10,
April Wednesday 28 by 8pm)
Weighting: Week 4: 10% + Week
10: 20%
Length: Week 4: 300 words,
Week 10: 500 words.
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‘The Pitch’
Group Game
Design Proposal
Due: WednesdayWeek 6, April 15
weighting: 10%
length: 10 minutes
by cazpoo
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Game Design Group
Presentation
due: during lab/tutorials on Wednesday Week
11 (May 19) and Wednesday Week 12 (May
26). weighting: 25%
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Game Proposal Dossier
Due: Week 14 – June 9
Length: 1500 + audio/visual materialWeight: 25%
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Why study games?
58 billion in global revenue „ bigger than
Hollywood?
global games and our cultural lives
understanding interactivity
pervasiveness of games
broader implications of digital media and social
relationships
recession proof industry?
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Kerr Aphra, Kucklich Julian,
Brereton, Pat 2006, 'New media -
new pleasures?' International
Journal of Cultural Studies,
vol. 9, no. 1, pp.63-82.
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Meaningful Content
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Pleasure and Cultural
Consumption
by meddygarnet
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Egenfeldt-Nielsen et al, 2008 Chapter 3,
'What is a game?' Understanding Video
Games The Essential Introduction
(Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Simon, Heide Smith,
Jonas, Pajares Tosca Susana) p22-
44. (Library e-reading)
What is a Game?
Formal Definitions
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What is a Game?
Johan Huzinga (1872-1945) Homo Ludens
(1938)–
play as primary formative element of
human culture
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Roger Caillois (1913-1978)
Defined play as an activity which is
• Free (voluntary)
•
Separate (fixed space and time)• Uncertain (player innovation and initiative)
• Unproductive( nothing is created)
• Governed by rules• Make-believe
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Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“Games are popular art, collective social reactions to the main
drive or action of any culture. Games, like institutions, are
extensions of social man and of the body politic, as technologies
are extensions of the animal organism. Both games and
technologies are counter-irritants or ways of adjusting to the
stress that occur in any social group...Games are dramatic models
of our psychological lives providing release of particular tensions.”
Marshall McLuhan (1964) Understanding Media: The Extensions of
Man
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Gregory Bateson (1904 -1980)
British anthropologist, social scientist and
cyberneticist framed play as
communication of meanin ful fictions.
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Thinking and Talking about
games
Williams, Dmitri, Yee, Nick, and Caplan,
Scott 2008, 'Who plays, how much and
why? Debunking the stereotypical
gamer profile', Journal of Computer-
Mediated Communication vol.13 pp.993-1018.
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Blog TopicS
• What is a Game? Compare two formal
definitions.
• Debunk a common gamer/games
stereotype.
• Do males play more than females?
• What gaming ‘pleasures’ do you enjoy?
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Henry Jenkins
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